The hide-and-seek muse: annotations of contemporary poetry

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Whitman & Dickinson in our space -- The hide-and-seek muse -- Spring & all : poetry & the seasons -- Words in love -- Verse's rich web portals -- Poetic bloodlines -- Some musings on poetic self-portraiture -- Illness & poetry -- Dementia's commonplace book -- The ecstatic stereoscopy of September -- Poets in the print shop -- Cabin fever : Winter thoughts on the place of poetry.;A collection of essays on contemporary poetry, originally published for the Chronicle of Higher Education's Arts & Academe and Brainstorm blogs. Contributors: Kazim Ali, Debra Allbery,Talvikki Ansel, Jennifer Atkinson, David Baker, Jill Bialosky, Suzanne Buffam, Jennifer Chang, Michael Collier, Randall Couch, Stephen Cushman, Kate Daniels, Kyle Dargan, Claudia Emerson, Monica Ferrell, David Francis, Gabriel Fried, Alice Fulton, Rachel Hadas, Brenda Hillman, Edward Hirsch, Jane Hirshfield, Mark Jarman, Laura Kasischke, Jennifer Key, L. S. Klatt, Joanna Klink, Hank Lazer, Paul Legault, Willie Lin, Maurice Manning, Cate Marvin, Heather McHugh, Erika Meitner, Carol Muske-Dukes, Amy Newman, Meghan O'Rourke, Eric Pankey, Kiki Petrosino, Carl Phillips, John Poch, Bin Ramke, Srikanth Reddy, Michael Rutherglen, Mary Ann Samyn, Philip Schultz, Sarah Schweig, Allison Seay, Ravi Shankar, Ron Slate, R. T. Smith, Larissa Szporluk, Mary Szybist, Brian Teare, William Thompson, David Wojahn, Charles Wright, Ye Chun.