How a Poem Moves (eBook)

Adam Sol is an award-winning poet, writer, and teacher. He has published four collections of poetry, including Crowd of Sounds, which won Ontario’s Trillium Book Award. He lives in Toronto, Ontario, with his wife, Rabbi Yael Splansky, and their three sons.

Introduction
How a Poem Puts Skin on a Mystery: Philip Levine, "Making Light of It”
How a Poem Shapes Memory: Deborah Digges, "Stealing Lilacs from the Cemetery”
How a Poem Articulates a Feeling: C.K. Williams, "Love: Beginnings”
How a Poem Crystalizes an Image: Yusef Komunyakaa, "Yellowjackets”
How a Poem Makes Meaning with Music: Elise Partridge, "Domestic Interior: Child Watching Mother”
How a Poem Snapshots a Moment of Drama: Tiphanie Yanique, "My brother comes to me”
How a Poem Seduces Us with Outlandishness: Diane Seuss, "Free beer”
How a Poem Cooks Up Dark Insight: Philip Metres, "Recipe from the Abbasid”
How a Poem Pushes Us Away and Beckons Us Closer: Marilyn Dumont, "How to Make Pemmican”
How a Poem Wrestles with its Inheritance: Rahat Kurd, "Ghazal: In the Persian”
How a Poem Lives Between Languages: Natalia Toledo, trans. Clare Sullivan, "Flower that Drops Its Petals”
How a Poem Invites Us to Praise: Ross Gay, "Ode to Drinking Water from My Hands”
How a Poem Answers Some Questions But Not Others: Amber McMillan, "The Light I’ve Seen in Your Hair I Have Found in My Own Hands”
How a Poem Clarifies Its Blur: Jeff Latosik, "Aubade Photoshop”
How a Poem Changes As We Read: Ali Blythe, "Shattered”
How a Poem Will (Not) Save Us: Raoul Fernandes, "Life With Tigers”
How a Poem Loves a Misunderstanding: Richard Siken, "Dots Everywhere”
How a Poem Mistrusts Its Idols: Cassidy McFadzean, "You’ll Be the Skipper, I’ll Be the Sea”
How a Poem Doesn’t Dish: Damian Rogers, "Ode to a Rolling Blackout”
How a Poem Impersonates a Tomato: Oliver Bendorf, "Queer Facts About Vegetables”
How a Poem Seeks New Models: Shannon Maguire, from Myrmurs
How a Poem Makes Itself Out of Unusual Materials: Madhur Anand, "Especially in a Time”
How a Poem Chooses the Apocalypse Behind Curtain #3: Jennifer L. Knox, "The New Let’s Make a Deal”
How a Poem Assembles a Smashed Record for Posterity: George Murray, from "#DaydreamBereaver”
How a Poem Tries to Connect Us, Despite the Obstacles: Donna Stonecipher, "Model City [4]”
How a Poem Welcomes Us to the Neighborhood: Bren Simmers, "[night of nesting dolls]”
How a Poem Evokes Wonder: Sarah Holland-Batt, "Botany”
How a Poem Reaches for Transcendence: Eric Pankey, "Ash”
How a Poem Mourns: Don Paterson, "Mercies”
How a Poem Confronts the Limitations of Our Empathy: Soraya Peerbaye, "Trials”
How a Poem Tries to Get Into It: Rowan Ricardo Phillips, "Little Song”
How a Poem Chattily Wonders About Life’s Purpose: Ulrikka S. Gernes, "On H. C. Andersen Boulevard During Rush Hour”
How a Poem Transforms a Stroll into a Ceremony: Joy Harjo, "Walk”
How a Poem Imperfectly Reconciles Complexity: Liz Howard, "A Wake”
How a Poem Haunts: Norman Dubie, "Lines for Little Mila”
Conclusion
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