Poetry for Students

Volume 19 143 She wants to examine the notions that one culture holds about the other, “what one said when the other wasn’t arou ...

144 Poetry for Students of formal structure, but her ear guided her in mat- ters of rhyme and rhythm. After the sixth grade, how ...

Volume 19 145 Once the journals NuestroandRevista Chi- cano-Riqueñaaccepted her first poems, Cisneros gained enough confidence t ...

146 Poetry for Students In conversations about her life, Cisneros admits that up through her college years she had always felt t ...

Volume 19 147 Some of the stories were my students’ when I was a counselor; women would confide in me and I was so overwhelmed w ...

148 Poetry for Students Talking about ghosts, would you say that writ- ing is a way of getting rid of your guilt, of saying: “Yo ...

Volume 19 149 you say it; something a little immodest, a little crazy, admitting you’re a writer. I guess the first time I legit ...

150 Poetry for Students not something in a book or in your dreams. It’s on the loaf of bread that you buy, it’s on the radio jin ...

Volume 19 151 I complain about my students and say how they’re always sucking my blood. Ha! But they would never kill me or suck ...

152 Poetry for Students but that’s not the way that I would like to do it. I would like to start the class when I get there and ...

On Location in the Loire Valley Diane Ackerman’s poem “On Location in the Loire Valley” was published in her fifth volume of po- ...

154 Poetry for Students University (1984–1986), and was a staff writer for theNew Yorkerfrom 1988 to 1994. In 1976, Ackerman pub ...

Volume 19 155 uncomfortable because of it. It feels as if cold steel is passing up their spines. In line 2, the people in the ca ...

156 Poetry for Students of smell,” is harder to explicate with any specificity. It certainly alludes to the well-known capacity ...

Volume 19 157 The final couplet, although the meaning is ob- scure, contains phrases that suggest a negative or darker view of l ...

158 Poetry for Students Historical Context The Ghazal The ghazal originated in Arabic, Persian, Turk- ish, Urdu, and Pashto lite ...

Volume 19 159 Criticism Bryan Aubrey Aubrey holds a Ph.D. in English and has pub- lished many articles on twentieth-century lite ...

160 Poetry for Students than a cursory study of the form and themes of the original Asian ghazals. This may in turn lead to more ...

Volume 19 161 that, when originally published in the literary mag- azinePloughshares, these ghazals were entitled “Sheffield Pas ...

162 Poetry for Students gathering around Christmas trees that have mistle- toe on them. As the speaker notes, although the popla ...