Compulsions of Silk Worms and Bees

This new collection of poetry from veteran author, Julianna Baggott, is written as a manual on writing poetry. On the surface, it appears only to be a collection of poems about poetry. On a deeper level though, it turns craft on its ear to examine the larger, looming world. There are several different types of poems included. Some poems are written as question and answer dialogues. Some poems personify poetry itself as a character and address it as an unruly muse. Others are more pointedly instructive and presented as example poems. Still others are written to famous poets ranging from Theodore Roethke to Dean Young and can be either argumentative or adoring.

Julianna Baggott teaches at Florida State University's Creative Writing Program.

Direct address : dear reader	p. 3
Dear critic	p. 4
1. Poetry addresses her sister, the novel	p. 5
2. The novel responds to her sister, poetry	p. 6
Poetry despises your attempts at domesticity	p. 7
Q and A : how is that some poems just fail? : (the abridged version)	p. 8
Q and A : do you write about real stuff or do you make it all up?	p. 9
The orphan poem	p. 10
For Theodore Roethke	p. 11
Q and A : where do you get your ideas? : answer #1	p. 12
Q and A : where do you get your ideas? : answer #2	p. 15
The current events poem : the Hindenburg and twin towers	p. 16
Q and A : do you have any tips? : answer #1	p. 17
Q and A : do you simultaneously submit?	p. 18
Poetry as the nurse you've come to rely on	p. 19
Q and A : why don't you write formal poetry?	p. 20
Q and A : how do your children affect your work?	p. 21
An ars poetica about ars poetica	p. 22
For Charles Simic	p. 23
Q and A : don't poets just write the same poem over and over?	p. 24
Q and A : why do you write? : answer #1	p. 27
The workshop poem	p. 28
The stolen poem : my brother poem after Levine's 'what work is'	p. 29
Q and A : do you think it helps to have had a lot of experiences and to have seen the world?	p. 31
The exercise-born poem, a test-tube baby	p. 32
Eve recalls birthing and her discovery of metaphor	p. 33
Q and A : why do you write? : answer #2	p. 34
On the personal poem : in defense of rotting	p. 35
Poem for dean young	p. 36
The poem that wants to be written	p. 38
Concerning Mr. Frank O'Hara and his critics, the assassins in his orchards	p. 39
Prose poem : I send poetry a post card	p. 43
Poetry punishes you for your absence	p. 44
A poem of thanksgiving : I'm writing again	p. 45
Poem that surfaces on a bad day among giants	p. 46
A caution against historical poetry in the voice of Lazarus	p. 47
Termites : a caution on love poetry	p. 48
Marriage as a creative process, a love poem	p. 49
Poetry as a lover	p. 50
Poetry as a mother who chooses between us	p. 51
In response to poetry is a house with many rooms	p. 55
Apologia for my obsessions	p. 56
An apologia for using words in poetry	p. 57
Talking dirty : the marketing of poetry	p. 58
Argument with Louis Simpson	p. 60
Poetry in the suburbs	p. 61
Q and A : do you have any tips? : answer #2	p. 63
The place poem : sparrows point	p. 64
Q and A : when do you know a poem is done?	p. 65
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