Crafting authentic voice

Pt. I. delight and dilemma of voice

Antipasto : Stopping by woods after a bronchoscopy

1. Reasons to read

2. Voice lessons

3. Email admissions

4. Two bands

Pt. II. Qualities of voice

Antipasto : "Poems," by Gary Gildner

5. Qualities of voice

6. Information please

7. appeal of narrative

8. Perception and surprise

9. Surprise for whom?

10. Humor, lightness, play

Pt. III. Trust the gush

Antipasto: Olivia leads the way

11. place of passion

12. "Outcast," by Lorie Barnhart

13. How voice is lost

14. five-paragraph you-know-what

15. Of buts and burrs and bad advice

16. Grammatically high-strung

17. Whatever it takes : breaking the rules in style

18. Mischief, rebellion, attitude

19. Many voices

20. Imitation

21. "It's alive! : it's alive! : it's alive!"

22. Wear a mask, unleash a voice

23. generative power of parallel structure

24. "Who said that?" by David Schuster

Pt. IV. Crafting authentic voice

Antipasto : squirming, fretting, and fraud

25. Enter craft

26. Making it rougher

27. Mind pictures

28. Hit dem senses

29. What the ear knows

30. Linguistic inebriation

31. Living leaping words

32. Who's got the action?

33. Weeding the garden

34. Placement and payoff

35. Great lengths

36. Get your pipe and blow doughnuts : the speed of metaphor

37. Ingmar Bergman, Janis Joplin, and Howard Cosell : allusions to extend meaning

38. Behold this visage : how speech helps writing

39. In the beginning

40. And in the end

41. Working together

Pt. V. Voice and identity

Antipasto : Huck, Holden, and Talya

42. moves in one piece

43. small work I have to do

44. Utmost essence.