| Description |
xiii, 268 pages : portraits ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-268). |
| Contents |
William Stafford : opening the moment -- Mary Oliver : a solitary walk -- John Montague : poetry and the common work -- Charles Simic : the toy of language -- Seamus Heaney : the words worth saying -- Donald Hall : the work that makes a home -- Maxine Kumin : new life in the barn -- Carolyn Forchě : the poetry of witness -- Mart̕in Espada : poetry and the burden of history -- Marge Piercy : the communal voice -- Rita Dove : a chorus of voices -- Bei Dao : reclaiming the word -- Donald Hall : without and within. |
| Summary |
"Based on a three-year series of interviews conducted by Steven Ratiner for the Christian Science Monitor, this book offers extended conversations with twelve of today's most influential poets. Published here in their entirety for the first time, their comments are wonderfully detailed, refreshingly honest, and provide the sort of intimate introduction to both poet and text that readers are rarely privileged to enjoy. In the book's closing piece, Steven Ratiner makes a return visit to Donald Hall's New Hampshire farm to conduct a moving interview shortly before the publication of Hall's collection Without, which focused on the death of his wife, poet Jane Kenyon."--Jacket. |
| Subject |
Poets, American -- 20th century -- Interviews.
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American poetry -- 20th century -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc.
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Poetry, Modern -- 20th century -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc.
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Poets -- 20th century -- Interviews.
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Poetry -- Authorship.
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| Added Author |
Ratiner, Steven.
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| ISBN |
1558493573 alkaline paper |
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