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Poetry in person : twenty-five years of conversation with America's poets

Title
Poetry in person : twenty-five years of conversation with America's poets / edited and with an introduction by Alexander Neubauer ; postscript by Robert Polito.
ISBN
0375711759
9780375711756
Edition
1st paperback ed.
Published
New York : Alfred A Knopf, 2011, ©2010.
Physical Description
xviii, 343 p. : ill. ; 21 cm
Local Notes
BEIN Zab M552 Zz2011P: Paperbound. From the James Merrill Papers (addition).
Notes
Includes index.
Originally published by Alfred A. Knopf in 2010.
"This is a Borzoi Book"-- Verso t.p.
Summary
From Maxine Kumin in 1973 to Eamon Grennan in 1996, including Amy Clampitt, Marilyn Hacker, Paul Muldoon, Nobel laureate Derek Walcott, and U.S. poet laureates Robert Hass, Robert Pinsky, Louise Gluck, and Charles Simic, "Poetry in Person" follows an extraordinary range of poets as they create their poems and offers numerous illustrations of the original drafts, which bring their processes to light.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
November 03, 2011
Contents
For my son on the highways of his mind ; Sperm / Maxine Kumin, November 14, 1973
Meditation at Lagunitas / Robert Hass, December 14, 1977
Dream drumming / Muriel Rukeyser, February 22, 1978
You can have it / Philip Levine, March 29, 1978
For my mother ; Autumnal ; World breaking apart / Louise Glück, February 28, 1979
Poem for South African women / June Jordan, March 21, 1979
Mirabell: books of number / James Merrill, May 23, 1979
The hang-glider's daughter / Marilyn Hacker, April 15, 1980
Little sleep's-head sprouting hair in the moonlight / Galway Kinnell, March 24, 1981
XLVIII / Derek Walcott, May 5, 1982
Black buttercups / Amy Clampitt, February 22, 1983
chemotherapy / Lucille Clifton, May 3, 1983
Against starlings / Stanley Plumly, April 29, 1986
Medusa / C.K. Williams, March 1, 1988
The hunt / Molly Peacock, April 7, 1992
The want bone / Robert Pinsky, November 16, 1993
Wild gratitude / Edward Hirsch, October 2, 1993
Confessional / Frank Bidart, March 1, 1994
My father's body / William Matthews, March 29, 1994
Cows / Paul Muldoon, March 14, 1995
The cleaving / Li-Young Lee, March 29, 1995
Official inquiry among the grains of sand / Charles Simic, April 19, 1995
Ants / Eamon Grennan, March 15, 1996
Postscript: Pearl London / Robert Polito.
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