therapy recognizing a need no one **~u auu~o ~--
ae， exclaiming， \"Wouldn t it be great to present a...book of
zrafted poems by poets from all around the country who under~
the connections between writing as an art form and writing a~
therapeutic experience!\" Ideas began to bubble， then to percl
Jennifer was to be publicist for the book; I， to be editor.
Soon a call went out， ads appeared in ~ (Poets & wri
and in other national newsletters; correspondence proliferat
The call， though specific， was open to a variety of response
，，Wanted--For an anthology whose working title is Writing A G
Poem Is Good Therapy: a poem that incorporates feelings and
sensory appeals; an account of what the writing of the poem
achieved in the poet s sensibilities and/or workaday life.\"
The publication goal was the National Association for
Therapy conference， spring 1985.
The book s title would reveal itself， I thought， in on
the poems submitted. In fact， The Poet s Job: To Go Too Fa]
from Bonnie Winston s account of her poem， \"Light Rain.\" A:
months ensued， I was more and more impressed with the numbe:
poems that focused on personal relationships; easily two-th
them did， and many of the others were addressed to a person
persons， a sense of whom was conveyed to the reader.
The book came alive， and began taking a shape of its o
Five areas gained definition: Early Personal Relationships-
f Livin Dangerously; Adult Relationships--Don t Lau~
Leer o g . . n
Serious， She Says; Adult-Chlld Relatlonshlps--You Just Ca
Back and Exactly Recreate a Scene; Healing Relationships--~
to Walls and Untalk; Personae and Other Fresh Perceptions-]
Masked Man in My Bed. I
Each of the five section titles is from a poem， each l
suggestive of， or applicable to， the content of many poems
that section of the anthology. The index of authors is a
convenience. The index of first lines is， I hope， instruc
Although I sometimes tell aspiring writers， \"A poem is mos
middle，\" I also point to the first line of a poem as wonde
~mnnrtsnt for drawinq the reader in， creating expectations
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