Ships Going into the Blue: Essays and Notes on Poetry Book

	A Wooden Bowl	3
	My First Acquaintance with a Poet	5
	Humane Letters	11
	"The Precinct Station" - Structure and Idea	20
	An Explosive Moment	25
	A Leave of Absence	27
	Theater Business	37
	Schloimy Goes to the Post Office	43
	Entries	45
	A Walk with Basho	60
	A Window	65
	Platero and I	66
	Life with the Real White Goddess	69
	Poetry and Word Processing: One or the Other, but Not Both	74
	First Books	79
	An Obsessed and Original Imagination	82
	On the Neglect of Poetry in the United States	85
	Strategies of Sex in Whitman's Poetry	94
	"Planes in Relation" - the London Vortex	105
	James Wright	108
	Of Cows and Chaucer: New Poems	116
	Jamaican Poets	121
	There, They Could Say, Is the Jew	130
	Irish Ghosts	136
	An Amencan View of Pasternak	148
	Thoughts about a Doubtful Enterprise	155
	Index	165