The motive for metaphor : brief essays on poetry and psychoanalysis.

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Chapter Introduction / M. Seiden Henry -- chapter I Jokes, fathers, grief, and angels: a poem by Sherman Alexie / M. Seiden Henry -- chapter II Speaking of pain: Yehuda Amichai / M. Seiden Henry -- chapter III A sad story, briefly told: a poem by Simon Armitage / M. Seiden Henry -- chapter IV "Finding in the sound a thought": Matthew Arnold's "Dover beach" / M. Seiden Henry -- chapter V Auden's "Lullaby" and Winnnicott's "Hate ..." / M. Seiden Henry -- chapter VI An awakening: a poem by Elizabeth Bishop / M. Seiden Henry -- chapter VII On the pleasure in play: the poetry of Billy Collins / M. Seiden Henry -- chapter VIII Tyger time: e. e. cummings on conscientious objection / M. Seiden Henry -- chapter IX On idea and image and "the space between": a poem by Albert Goldbarth / M. Seiden Henry -- chapter X "When your heart cries out, being carried off ... ": a poem by Eamon Grennan / M. Seiden Henry -- chapter XI "Old pond, frog jump in ... "\ / M. Seiden Henry -- chapter XII Postmodern metaphor: a poem by Robert Hass / M. Seiden Henry -- chapter XIII The air of another time and place: a poem by Seamus Heaney / M. Seiden Henry -- chapter XIV Poetry as argument: a poem by Tony Hoagland / M. Seiden Henry -- chapter XV Marie Howe on "What the living do" / M. Seiden Henry -- chapter XVI Kenneth Koch on psychoanalysis in the "glory days" / M. Seiden Henry -- chapter XVII An old man's love song: a poem by Stanley Kunitz / M. Seiden Henry -- chapter XVIII "They fuck you up ..." Philip Larkin's "This be the verse" / M. Seiden Henry -- chapter XIX The art of the ordinary: Philip Levine on "What work is" / M. Seiden Henry -- chapter XX How otherness dissolves: a poem by Thomas Lux / M. Seiden Henry -- chapter XXI Mysterious tears: a poem by Rose McLarney / M. Seiden Henry -- chapter XXII A meditation without punctuation by W.S. Merwin / M. Seiden Henry -- chapter XXIII Narrative as metaphor: Sharon Olds / M. Seiden Henry -- chapter XXIV "The meaning of simplicity": a poem by Yannis Ritsos* / M. Seiden Henry -- chapter XXV Saying a lot with a little: the poetry of Kay Ryan / M. Seiden Henry -- chapter XXVI On the love of beauty--and a poem by Charles Simic / M. Seiden Henry -- chapter XXVII When the narrative changes: a poem by A.E. Stallings / M. Seiden Henry -- chapter XXVIII Metaphors for mind: the poet Gerald Stern / M. Seiden Henry -- chapter XXIX Negative capability and Wallace Stevens's "The emperor of ice-cream" / M. Seiden Henry -- chapter XXX Tracks in the snow: a poem of the Sung dynasty* / M. Seiden Henry -- chapter XXXI On style: Tennyson and Cavafy, and intersubjective engagement / M. Seiden Henry -- chapter XXXII Empathic music: a poem of William Carlos Williams / M. Seiden Henry -- chapter XXXIII The pathetic fallacy: William Carlos Williams and Emily Dickinson / M. Seiden Henry -- chapter XXXIV W.B. Yeats on "Where love has pitched his mansion ... "* / M. Seiden Henry.

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