On Poetry and Craft: Selected Prose Book

	Foreword	3
	Some Self-Analysis	17
	An American Poet Introduces Himself and His Poems	21
	Theodore Roethke	27
	Theodore Roethke Writes...	31
	On "Identity"	35
	Verse in Rehearsal	45
	Open Letter	49
	How to Write like Somebody Else	55
	Some Remarks on Rhythm	63
	The Poet's Business	75
	Words for Young Writers	87
	The Teaching Poet	101
	A Word to the Instructor	107
	The Cat in the Classroom	111
	I Teach Out of Love	119
	The Teaching of Poetry	131
	First Class	135
	Last Class	147
	One Ring-Tailed Roarer to Another	155
	Dylan Thomas: Elegy	157
	Five American Poets	161
	The Poetry of Louise Bogan	165
	A Psychic Janitor	177
	A Tirade Turning	189
	The Beautiful Disorder	193
App	Introduction to On the Poet and His Craft	207
	About the Author	213