TABLE OF CONTENTS
Foreword by Gillian Welch
CHAPTER 1: Object Writing: The Art of the Diver
CHAPTER 2: Rusty's Collar: A Lesson in Showing and Telling
CHAPTER 4: Learning to Say No: Building Worksheets
CHAPTER 5: Clichés: The Sleeping Puppy (A Case Study)
CHAPTER 6: Productive Repetition
CHAPTER 7: Verse Development and Power Positions
CHAPTER 8: Travelogues: Verse Continuity
CHAPTER 9: Stripping Your Repetition for Repainting
CHAPTER 11: Point of View: Second Person and the Hangman
CHAPTER 12: Point of View: Second Person as Narrative
CHAPTER 13: Dialogue and Point of View
CHAPTER 14: Meter: Something in Common
CHAPTER 15: Spotlighting With Common Meter
CHAPTER 18: Prosody: Structure as Film Score
CHAPTER 19: Understanding Motion
CHAPTER 20: Form Follows Function: Building the Perfect Beast
CHAPTER 21: The Great Balancing Act: Courting Danger on the High Wire
CHAPTER 22: Song Forms: (Im) Potent Packages
CHAPTER 23: Song Forms: (Im) Potent Packages II
Appendix: Co-Writing: The “No”-Free Zone
