The Answers Are Inside the Mountains: Meditations on the Writing Life
A volume in the Poets on Poetry series, which collects critical works by contemporary poets, gathering together the articles, interviews, and book reviews by which they have articulated the poetics of a new generation.\ In this fourth collection of reflections on writing and the writing life, the late William Stafford's lifelong refusal to separate his work from the task of living responsibly-"What a person is shows up in what a person does"-rings clear.\ The Answers Are Inside the Mountains...
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A gathering of poems, articles, aphorisms, writing exercises, and interviews from this prolific and venerable author
IBeing a Poet: Comments and InterviewsA Just Right Resonance3"It Still Takes a Spark from Heaven": An Interview with Amy Godine5Contradictory Influences11Poems on Poets: Emily Dickinson, John Berryman, John Ashbery, Galway Kinnell, Richard Hugo17The Art of Poetry: The Paris Review Interview with William Young22Opportunities to Retrieve Paradise42Speaking of Writing ...46Some Suggestions from Experience50The Answers Are Inside the Mountains52IIOn Workshops and Poetry ClassesMeeting the Workshop57The Minuet59Goals62An Allegiance to the Most Tongue-Tied: A Discussion of Workshops with Claire Cooperstein65A Memory Map Exercise73Workshop Insights79The Classroom Contract84From a Class on Poetry90Farewell after a "Craft Lecture"93IIIDaily WritingThree Poems on Writing97Three Days, Four Poems: An Interview with Vincent Wixon and Michael Markee100Four Early Poems: "Vacation," "Fall Journey," "Traveling through the Dark," "Back Home"121On Revision: An Interview with Vincent Wixon and Michael Markee130Whatever the World Gives Me: "The Animal That Drank Up Sound," "At the Playground," "Coming Back," "The Magic Mountain"141"An Indulgence in Loss": A Dialogue with Richard Hugo153Just Thinking177
