In this new edition of Best Words, Best Order, Stephen Dobyns further explains the mystery of the poet's work. Through essays on memory and metaphor, pacing, and the intricacies of voice and tone, and thoughtful appreciations of Chekhov, Ritsos, Mandelstam, and Rilke, Dobyns guides readers and writers through poetry's mysterious twilight communiques. For this new second edition, Dobyns has added two new essays, one dealing with the idea of "beauty" in poetry and another dealing with the almost mystical way poets connect seemingly disparate elements in a single work.

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Stephen Dobyns is the author of eight volumes of poetry, among them Cemetery Nights and Velocities. He has also written 17 novels.

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Book Title: Best Words, Best Order
Book Subtitle: Essays on Poetry
Authors: Stephen Dobyns
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-73116-9
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Palgrave Literature & Performing Arts Collection, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America Inc. 2003
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4039-6147-1Published: 30 May 2003
eBook ISBN: 978-1-349-73116-9Published: 30 April 2016
Edition Number: 2
Number of Pages: XIV, 398
Topics: Poetry and Poetics

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