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Author Jackson, Richard, 1946- author.

Title Acts of mind : conversations with contemporary poets / by Richard Jackson
Published Tuscaloosa [Alabama] : The University of Alabama Press, 1984
©1983

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Description 1 online resource (235 pages)
Contents Preface; The Path of Saying (Stanley Plumly); The Sanctioned Babel (Miller Williams); Untelling the Hour (Mark Strand); The Domain of the Marvelous Prey (Charles Simic); The Hallowing of the Everyday (Jean Valentine); Event: Corrective: Cure: (A.R. Ammons); Stepping into the Sky (Carol Muske); Unnaming the Myths (W.S. Merwin); On the Horizon of Time (Robert Penn Warren); Distilled from Thin Air (Marvin Bell); The Imminence of a Revelation (John Ashbery); Renaming the Present (David St. John); Lives We Keep Wanting to Know (Philip Booth); Doubling the Difference (Heather McHugh)
Questions of Will (Robert Pack)Settling in Another Field (Maxine Kumin); Living the Layers of Time (Stanley Kunitz); Double Vision (Daniel Mark Epstein); Emergencies of the Moment (William Stafford); The Languages of Illusion (Dara Wier); The Mystery of Things That Are (Richard Wilbur); Before the Beginning (Donald Finkel); On the Margins of Dreams (Fred Chappell); Unbreakable Codes (Linda Pastan); Projecting the Literal Word (Robert Creeley); Answering the Dark (David Ignatow); Shaping Our Choices (Marge Piercy); Magic: Power: Activation: Transformation (Michael S. Harper)
On the Periphery of Time (Donald Hall)The Candle in the Pitcher (John Hollander); Selected Bibliography; Index
Summary "There have been any number of books of interview with contemporary writers, but none precisely like this one. The author/editor has somehow managed to get these very different poets to follow his lead and (in many cases for the first time anywhere) to reveal much about their intellectual habits, assumptions, and preconceptions. In almost every case he has been able to get these poets to talk more openly and freely than anyone else has ever done."--George Garrett
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Poets, American -- 20th century -- Interviews
American poetry -- 20th century -- History and criticism
Poetry -- Authorship.
Poetics -- History -- 20th century
FICTION -- General.
American poetry
Poetics
Poetry -- Authorship
Poets, American
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Interviews
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780817388638
081738863X