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Tables of Contents for The Answers Are Inside the Mountains
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
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I: Being a Poet: Comments and Interviews
A Just Right Resonance
3
2
"It Still Takes a Spark from Heaven": An Interview with Amy Godine
5
6
Contradictory Influences
11
6
Poems on Poets: Emily Dickinson, John Berryman, John Ashbery, Galway Kinnell, Richard Hugo
17
5
The Art of Poetry: The Paris Review Interview with William Young
22
20
Opportunities to Retrieve Paradise
42
4
Speaking of Writing...
46
4
Some Suggestions from Experience
50
2
The Answers Are Inside the Mountains
52
5
II: On Workshops and Poetry Classes
Meeting the Workshop
57
2
The Minuet
59
3
Goals
62
3
An Allegiance to the Most Tongue-Tied: A Discussion of Workshops with Claire Cooperstein
65
8
A Memory Map Exercise
73
6
Workshop Insights
79
5
The Classroom Contract
84
6
From a Class on Poetry
90
3
Farewell after a "Craft Lecture"
93
4
III: Daily Writing
Three Poems on Writing
97
3
Three Days, Four Poems: An Interview with Vincent Wixon and Michael Markee
100
21
Four Early Poems: "Vacation," "Fall Journey," "Traveling through the Dark," "Back Home"
121
9
On Revision: An Interview with Vincent Wixon and Michael Markee
130
11
Whatever the World Gives Me: "The Animal That Drank Up Sound," "At the Playground," "Coming Back," "The Magic Mountain"
141
12
"An Indulgence in Loss": A Dialogue with Richard Hugo
153
24
Just Thinking
177