Show Me Your Environment : Essays on Poetry, Poets, and Poems.

Contents -- Poetry -- Show Me Your Environment -- Native Colors -- If: On Transit, Transcendence, and Trope -- Hum Along: How I Took up Guitar and Became a Poet -- Spill -- Poets -- Herbert's Conceited Poetry -- Corresponding Keats -- Song of Sanity: Whitman in Washington -- At Home with Emily Dickinson -- Almost Utmost: Marianne Moore -- Re: Wright -- Irony and Ecstasy: On Maxine Kumin and Gerald Stern -- Ted's Box: On Ted Kooser -- Provision and Perfection: Stanley Plumly's Poetry -- Brutal Mercy: On Norman Dubie -- Signs for My Fathers: The Evolution of David Bottoms -- Heaven and Earth: On Ellen Bryant Voigt and Robert Morgan -- Story's Stories: Anne Carson, Susan Mitchell, Carl Phillips, D. Nurkse, and Michael Collier -- Poems -- Whitman Alone: "When I Heard theLearn'd Astonomer" -- Walt Whitman's "Time to Come" -- Life Lines: Issa and Ella Wheeler Wilcox -- Kees and Me: "Late Evening Song" and"Top of the Stove" -- Levis Here and There: "In the City of Light" -- Jane Hirshfield's Foxes: "Three Foxes in aField at Twilight" -- Solmaz Sharif: "Personal Effects".