Why don't we say what we mean?: essays mostly about poetry

Not knowing

Should poems tell the truth?

Choosing the wrong subject

Poetry and consolation

Poetry and stupidity

Teased into thought: three endings

In a different hour: collaboration, revision, and friendship

Forgetting: on "At evening"

First love: on Lewis Carroll's "Jabberwocky"

Why don't we say what we mean? Robert Frost's "Mending wall"

Thinking out loud: on Wisława Szymborska

A clock called the wind: René Magritte and the mysteries of metaphor

Remarks as literature: The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas by Gertrude Stein

Ghosts and their discontents

Poetry and dreams.