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A varied and generous sampling of more than a decade's worth of prose by an important poet

An engaging and intimate collection by an American original

Collects reviews, essays, memoirs, and interviews by acclaimed poet Charles Wright. This collection includes meditations on the details of memory and what it means to visit the past; the vices of titleism and the hydrosyllabic foot in poetry; a comparison of poems and journeys; an attempt to define "image"; and discussions of the current state of poetry.

Essays that explore the meaning of politics, love, and spiritual life in American poetry from Whitman to the present

How a poem tells a story, and the importance of narrative as core of a poem's body and key to its soul

A master of the lyric, Alfred Corn is also adept at working in forms, and has published several books featuring long poetic sequences, including a book-length narrative poem modeled on Dante's ""Divine Comedy"". This book features the poet/critic's personal, epistolary encounter with Flannery O'Connor.

Focusses on some of the renowned poets and artists, such as John Ashbery, Jean-Michel Basquiat, and Robert Creeley. This work contains eleven essays, which include: ""Passionate Spectator: On Frank O'Hara's Art Criticism""; ""At the Movies with Weldon Kees and Frank O'Hara""; ""The Poet as Art Critic (On John Ashbery and Frank O'Hara)""; and more.

A poetry handbook that places poststructuralist and postmodern ways of thinking alongside formalist modes, making explicit points of overlap and tension that are usually tacit. Each of Natasha Saje's nine essays addresses a topic of central concern to readers and writers of poetry while also making an argument about poetic language and ideology.

Brings together Marilyn Krysl's essays on the origins of language and poetry, poetic form, the poetry of witness, and poetry's collaboration with the healing arts. Beginning with pieces on her own origins as a poet, she branches into poetry's profound spiritual and political possibilities, drawing on rich examples from poets such as Anna Akhmatova, W.S. Merwin, and Venus Khoury-Ghata.

Presents a new attitude toward the teaching and practice of writing - a writer isn't simply a craftsman with something to say and the skill to say it. Rather, a writer brings those attributes into a process that is filled with exciting emergencies and opportunities. In the end, something emerges that is greater than the sum of its parts.

Part of the ""Poets on Poetry"" series, this title examines not only other writers' works with a critical eye, but also breaks boundaries in the author's exploration of the outer and inner reaches of the human condition. Included here are essays on April Bernard, Robinson Jeffers, Donald Justice, Pablo Neruda, Gerald Stern, Richard Wilson, and more.

Collects for the first time the prose writings of A.R. Ammons, one of America's most important and enduring contemporary poets. Set in Motion includes essays, reviews, and interviews as well as a selection of Ammons's poems, with commentary from the author about their inspiration and effects.

Gathers essays, interviews, poems, and performance texts by one of America's most significant contemporary poets

Essays and interviews on the relationship of color and the literary canon

Appraises the work of significant American poets in engaging and erudite essays by a leading critic and scholar

Collects unpublished interviews, poems, articles, aphorisms, and writing exercises from William Stafford, who kept a journal for nearly half a century and produced over 20,000 poems - a staggering output by any standard. The Answers Are Inside the Mountains confirms Stafford's enduringly important voice for our uncertain age.

Paul Hoover's wide-ranging subjects include the position of poetry in the electronic age, the notion of doubleness in the work of Harryette Mullen and others, the lyricism of the New York School poets, and the role of reality in American poetry.