TY  - BOOK
AU  - Dobyns,Stephen
TI  - Best words, best order: essays on poetry 
SN  - 9781403961471
PY  - 2003///
CY  - New York
PB  - Palgrave Macmillan
KW  - Poetry
KW  - Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.)
KW  - Poetics
KW  - Criticism
N1  - First edition published by St. Martin's Press, 1996; Includes bibliographical references (p.[369]-386) and index; Deceptions --; Metaphor and the authenticating act of memory --; Writing the reader's life --; Notes on free verse --; Pacing : the ways a poem moves --; Function of tone --; Voices one listens to --; Traffic between two worlds --; Rilke's growth as a poet --; Mandelstam : the poem as event --; Chekhov's sense of writing as seen through his letters --; Ritsos and the metaphysical moment --; Cemetery nights --; Maker's manipulation of time --; Passerby in the birdless street --; Problem of beauty and the requirements of art
ER  -