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Tables of Contents for Mooring Against the Tide
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Preface
vii
I POETRY
1
124
Getting Started
1
6
Imagery
7
12
``On Writing with Imagery''
12
7
Diane Averill
Lines and Stanzas
19
10
``Hey, Good Lookin', Haven't We Met Somewhere Before?''
12
17
Beckian Fritz Golberg
Sound and the Poem
29
10
``Degas in Vegas: Some Thoughts on Sound in Poetry''
34
5
Alberto Rios
Rhyme and Meter, the Music of Poems
39
13
``Meter and Rhyme''
45
7
James Hoggard
Voice and How We Create It in Poems
52
9
``Voice: What You Say and How Readers Hear It''
56
5
Kevin Stein
Point of View in Poems
61
7
``Point of View in Poetry''
63
5
James Hoggard
Fixed Forms: Creating Our Poetic World
68
9
``Form in Poetry''
71
6
Lynn Hoggard
Putting It All Together: The Whole Poem
77
11
``Lorca's Duende, The Art of Zingers in Poetry Workshops, or How to Teach Students to Energize Their Poems''
00
88
Virgil Suarez
Revision
88
15
``Moonsheen and Porchlight: Revision as Illumination''
95
8
Gary Thompson
The Poetry Workshop
103
3
Workshopping a Free Verse Poem
106
8
Workshopping a Fixed Form Poem
114
11
II FICTION
125
170
Surrounded by Stories: Where Our Stories Come From
125
12
``The Second Story: How a Promising Single Episode Might Find Its Fullest Use in Our Fiction''
128
9
Ron Carlson
Point of View
137
13
``The Way I See It: Point of View''
142
8
Debra Earling
Plot
150
14
``Fairy Tales Always Come True: Plot and Imagination''
155
9
H. Lee Barnes
Character
164
9
``A Character's Skin''
167
6
Tracy Daugherty
Setting
173
11
``Take Place''
177
7
Valerie Miner
Dialogue
184
7
``On Dialogue''
186
5
Diana Abu-Jaber
Style, Tone, and Voice
191
9
``Voice in Fiction''
193
7
Amy Sage Webb
Credible Surprise on the Path to Resonance
200
7
``Mystery and Surprise''
202
5
Craig Lesley
Theme
207
3
Revision
210
3
Participating in the Workshop
213
3
Workshopping a Story in the First Person
216
32
Workshopping a Story in the Third Person
248
47
Glossary
295
4
Contributor's Biographies
299
2
Index
301