Introspections : American poets on one of their own poems / edited by Robert Pack, Jay Parini.

Starling eggs ("Scorn") / Carol Frost
A descant on "Echo location" / Alice Fulton
Dressing up naked: a life class in revision ("Woman with gardenia") / Pamela White Hadas
About my "Basket": looking for closure / David Huddle
Talking poetry at the Cafe Tazza ("Do not duplicate this key") / Richard Jackson
Gestations ("The Buddha in the womb") / Erica Jong
About "B negative" / X.J. Kennedy
Word for word ("Poem for my son") / Maxine Kumin
Perhaps before we both must leave ("To the young woman looking for the eating disorder workshop who found a poetry reading instead") / Gary Margolis
Quid pro quo / Paul Mariani
"People like us" / William Matthews
On "My mammogram" / J. D. McClatchy
"For Gabriel, falling through glass and ice" / Lynn McMahon

Seaglass: notes on "The hurricane" / Christopher Merrill
"Edward Hopper's Nighthawks, 1942" / Joyce Carol Oates
Merely dead, not absent ("Her story, my daughter Beatrice") / Carole Simmons Oles
Naming the animals ("The trees will die") / Robert Pack
Conversing in Oxford with Sir Isiah Berlin ("A conversation in Oxford") / Jay Parini
Notes on a poem: "Desecration at the Gravestone of Rose P. (1897-1924)" / Robert Pinksy
Sleeps ("Nobody sleeps") / Stanley Plumly
Perspectives ("The ferris wheel") / Wyatt Prunty
Elegiac problems ("Years later") / Lawrence Raab
Homage ("Sad stories") / Bin Ramke
A vision ("Sarah fledging") / Hilda Raz
On the composition of "Solitude etude" / Ira Sadoff
An alien and silken intelligence ("Silverfish") / Robert Siegel
"Making a statement" / Dave Smith
"Lifelong" / W.D. Snodgrass

On reading histories: "The captain's advice to those headed for the trees: 1609" / Katherine Soniat
Beginning to end ("I will love the twenty-first century") / Mark Strand
Good nature ("The Tapawera Raspberry Festival") / Dabney Stuart
Rilke unplugged ("On a stanza by Rilke") / Thomas Swiss
Writing the unspeakable ("What happened after") / Sue Ellen Thompson
Cutting to the bone ("Sear") / Eric Trethewey
"To throw away" / Chase Twichell
Kyrie / Ellen Bryant Voigt
Becoming subtropical ("Bone key") / Richard Wilbur
The dialogue of question and answer ("Questions my son asked me, answers I never gave him") / Nancy Willard
The writing of "Adjusting to the light" / Miller Williams
A destitute time ("Little purple") / Clara Yu
Apples ("In apple country") / Paul Zimmer.