Worlds Woven Together: Essays on Poetry and Poetics (Paperback)

Acknowledgments
Introduction
“A slave and worshiper at love’s doorstep”: Mir Taqi Mir
Censorship and the Role of the Poet in the Work of Ana Blandiana
At Home or Nowhere: A. K. Ramanujan
Your Thorns Are the Best Part of You: Marianne Moore and Stevie Smith
Eunice de Souza and Indian Speech
“Emmental freedom”: Czesław Miłosz
“There must be something to say”: On Verse Sound
Elizabeth Bishop, Robert Penn Warren, and Cleanth Brooks, Communication, and Other People
Ted Hughes, Keith Sagar, and the Poetics of Letter Prose
Rae Armantrout’s Lonely Dream
Dreaming the World: Vinod Kumar Shukla’s Extraordinary Sentences
Srinivas Rayaprol and Ga?mini Salga?do
You Can’t Close Your Eyes for a Sec: Arvind Krishna Mehrotra
Thom Gunn’s Shadows Hard as Board
Galway Kinnell, Trying to Become Winged
A. R. Ammons and “the political (read, human) world”
Postlyric and the Already Known: Dawn Lundy Martin
“I am not speaking of or as myself or for any/one”: Vahni (Anthony Ezekiel) Capildeo
Bibliography
Permissions
Index