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Tables of Contents for How to Read a Poem--And Start a Poetry Circle
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
The Letter O ... Talismans ... Teachers ... A Calling ... and Friends
1
18
The Three Systems of a Poem
19
4
A Comfort Poem ``Let Evening Come''
23
14
Jane Kenyon
A Queen Sends an SOS ``Wulf and Eadwacer'' by an anonymous woman of the Middle Ages
37
13
Self-Portraits ``Women's Locker Room'' and ``I am''
50
22
Marilyn Nelson
John Clare
Melancholy Deluxe ``No Worst, There Is None''
72
14
Gerard Manley Hopkins
Woman on a Quest ``Question''
86
14
May Swenson
Sex Behind a Jeweled Curtain ``To the Tune `Cutting a Flowering Plum Branch' ''
100
13
Li Ch'ing-chao
A Bedtime Story ``Talking in Bed''
113
13
Philip Larkin
Letters from Two Fathers ``My Father's Loveletters'' and ``Letters & Other Worlds''
126
23
Yusef Komunyakaa
Michael Ondaatje
Taking a Bite ``Asparagus''
149
15
Margaret Atwoodd
Joy ``Filling Station''
164
15
Elizabeth Bishop
The Shimmering Verge: A Coda ``The Fare''
179
8
Molly Peacock
How to Start a Poetry Circle
187
10
Picks for Poetry Circles
197
10
Acknowledgments
207