Description |
xiii, 288 pages ; 24 cm |
Series |
Poets on poetry |
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Poets on poetry.
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Contents |
Robert Frost and the better half of poetry / Amy Clampitt -- Dull subjects / William Matthews -- Improvisations on form and measure / Charles Wright -- The interrupted scheme : some thoughts on disorder and order in the lives of poets and the lives of poems / Gregory Orr -- What does art "imitate", and how? / Marvin Bell -- Notes on poetic form / David Lehman -- Sea level / Jane Miller -- From an interview with Linda Wagner / Robert Creeley -- From the pure clear word : an interview with Dave Smith -- The necessity of the personal / David Ignatow -- Reflections on narrative poetry / Louis Simpson -- The poem as a time machine / Tess Gallagher -- On poets and poetry today / John Logan -- Poetry and ambition / Donald Hall -- Four pot shots at poetry / Robert Francis -- Poetry as the dialogue we all hope someone is listening to / Diane Wakoski -- The greatest English lyric? A new reading of Joe E. Skilmer's "Therese" / John Frederick Nims -- The new class / Richard Kostelantz -- Fame, fortune, and other tawdry illusions / Marge Piercy -- From knots of wild energy : an interview with Wayne Dodd / Robert Bly -- "How it strikes a contemporary" : reflections on poetry and the role of the poet / Robert Hayden -- Negative capability and its children / Charles Simic -- From an interview with Calvin Bedient -- The freak show / Anne Sexton -- A few thoughts following Professor Clausen's essay / Hayden Carruth -- Two Saturday nights : rewriting a poem / Thom Gunn -- The end of a golden string / William Stafford -- The luck of it / William Meredith -- Bus stop : or, fear and loneliness on Potrero Hill / Donald Justice -- A wild surmise : motherhood and poetry / Alicia Ostriker -- An interview with Margaret Edwards / Galway Kinnell -- Estivating-1973 / Maxine Kumin -- The function of the poet / Fred Chappell |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
Subject |
American poetry -- 20th century -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc.
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Poetics.
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Poetry -- Authorship.
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Author |
Lammon, Martin, 1958-
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LC no. |
96043380 |
ISBN |
047206634X (paperback) |
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0472096346 (alk. paper) |
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