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Breakfast Served Any Time All Day

Essays on Poetry New and Selected

By Donald Hall
Subjects: Literary Studies, American Literature, Poetry and Poetry Criticism, Essay and Interview

A master of American letters collects forty years of writings on poetry in one essential volume

Natural Coincidence

The Trip from Kalamazoo

By Bil Gilbert
Subjects: Nature/Environment, Environmental Studies, Literary Studies, Essay and Interview, Memoir

Essays filled with affection, sophistication, and down-home common sense in an engagingly understated style by this prolific naturalist

On James Tate

Edited by Brian Henry
Subjects: Literary Studies, Poetry and Poetry Criticism, Essay and Interview
Series: Under Discussion

The first critical collection on the work of one of the most influential yet misunderstood American poets working today

The Best of Pickering

By Sam Pickering
Subjects: Memoir, Literary Studies, Essay and Interview

More than two dozen essays visit the author's great themes -- family, nature, seizing the day, and the strange goings-on in Carthage, Tennessee

The Answers Are Inside the Mountains

Meditations on the Writing Life

By William Stafford
Edited by Paul Merchant & Vincent Wixon
Subjects: Literary Studies, Poetry and Poetry Criticism, Essay and Interview
Series: Poets on Poetry

A gathering of poems, articles, aphorisms, writing exercises, and interviews from this prolific and venerable author

Barrier of a Common Language

An American Looks at Contemporary British Poetry

By Michael Dana Gioia
Subjects: Literary Studies, American Literature, Poetry and Poetry Criticism, Essay and Interview, European Studies, Eastern European Studies
Series: Poets on Poetry

The latest offering in the Poets on Poetry series from the acclaimed poet, critic, and current chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts

Water Music

Edited by Marjorie Ryerson
Subjects: Art, Photography, Literary Studies, Essay and Interview, Nature/Environment, Natural Resources

The Metaphysician in the Dark

By Charles Simic
Subjects: Literary Studies, American Literature, Poetry and Poetry Criticism, Essay and Interview, European Studies, Eastern European Studies
Series: Poets on Poetry

From one of America's foremost contemporary poets, a scintillating, surprising collection of essays on everything from poetry and art to the fine art of sausage-making

Song for Uncle Tom, Tonto, and Mr. Moto

Poetry and Identity

By David Alan Mura
Subjects: Literary Studies, Poetry and Poetry Criticism, American Literature, Essay and Interview, Race and Ethnicity
Series: Poets on Poetry

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

The Castle of Perseverance

Job Opportunities in Contemporary Poetry

By Thomas M. Disch
Subjects: Literary Studies, Essay and Interview, Poetry and Poetry Criticism, American Literature
Series: Poets on Poetry

Eminently readable and refreshingly candid essays on literature and culture, by a master of many literary genres and forms

A Boundless Field

American Poetry at Large

By Stephen Yenser
Subjects: Literary Studies, Poetry and Poetry Criticism, Essay and Interview, American Literature
Series: Poets on Poetry

Reflections on the state of poetry and criticism by a master of both genres

Body and Soul

Essays on Poetry

By Mark Foster Jarman
Subjects: Literary Studies, Poetry and Poetry Criticism, American Literature, Essay and Interview
Series: Poets on Poetry

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

Negative Capability

Contemporary American Poetry

By Linda Gregerson
Subjects: Literary Studies, Poetry and Poetry Criticism, American Literature, Essay and Interview
Series: Poets on Poetry

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

David Mamet in Conversation

Edited by Leslie Kane
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Media Studies, Cinema Studies, Literary Studies, American Literature, Essay and Interview
Series: Theater: Theory/Text/Performance

A master at dramatic dialogue, captured in real-life conversation about his work

The Poetry Blues

Essays and Interviews

By William Matthews
Edited by Sebastian Matthews & Stanley Plumly
Subjects: Literary Studies, Poetry and Poetry Criticism, Essay and Interview, Biography
Series: Poets on Poetry

A posthumous collection of essays on poetry, jazz, art, and language by one of America's most well respected poets

Bringing the Devil to His Knees

The Craft of Fiction and the Writing Life

Edited by Charles Baxter & Peter Turchi
Subjects: Literary Studies, Essay and Interview, American Literature, Composition

Fiction writers share the secrets of their craft in essays geared for the serious writer

The Gazer Within

By Larry Levis
Edited by Randy Marshall, Andrew Miller, and John Venable
Subjects: Literary Studies, Poetry and Poetry Criticism, American Literature, Biography, Essay and Interview
Series: Poets on Poetry

A posthumous collection of essays, reviews, and interviews by Larry Levis

The Writing Life

The Hopwood Lectures, Fifth Series

By Nicholas Delbanco
Subjects: Literary Studies, Essay and Interview, Composition, American Literature

Contemporary writers address questions of craft, art, audience, and culture

Blue Notes

Essays, Interviews, and Commentaries

By Yusef Komunyakaa
Edited by Radiclani Clytus
Subjects: Literary Studies, Poetry and Poetry Criticism, African American Studies, American Literature, Essay and Interview
Series: Poets on Poetry

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

Poetry at One Remove

Essays

By John Koethe
Subjects: Literary Studies, Poetry and Poetry Criticism, American Literature, Essay and Interview
Series: Poets on Poetry

Essays by a prize-winning poet that explore the intersection of poetry and philosophy

Robert Lowell's Life and Work

Damaged Grandeur

Edited by Richard W. Tillinghast
Subjects: Literary Studies, Poetry and Poetry Criticism, Essay and Interview, Michigan and the Great Lakes
Series: Poets on Poetry

A critical memoir of Robert Lowell by a friend and former student who knew him well

The Tremulous Private Body

Essays on Subjection

By Francis Barker
Subjects: Literary Studies, 16th and 17th Century Literature, Cultural Studies, Philosophy, Essay and Interview
Series: The Body, In Theory: Histories of Cultural Materialism

An ambitious study of literary, aesthetic, and philosophical authors on the modern subject versus the modern body

Poetry's Old Air

By Marianne Boruch
Subjects: Literary Studies, Poetry and Poetry Criticism, Gender Studies, American Literature, Essay and Interview
Series: Poets on Poetry

A rich gathering of evocative essays that link literature and the world beyond it

The Male Body

Features, Destinies, Exposures

Edited by Laurence Goldstein
Subjects: Sexuality Studies, Literary Studies, Essay and Interview, Cultural Studies

Poets, anthropologists, philosophers, artists, sociologists, and others provide perspectives on the male body.

Suicides and Jazzers

By Hayden Carruth
Subjects: Literary Studies, Poetry and Poetry Criticism, Modern Literature, Essay and Interview
Series: Poets on Poetry

Musings and revelations about poetry, jazz, and the rocky course of one poet's life

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