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Essay and Interview

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How to Draw a Circle

On Reading and Writing

By Dan Beachy-Quick
Subjects: Literary Studies, Poetry and Poetry Criticism, Essay and Interview, American Literature
Series: Poets on Poetry

An examination of what binds poetic endeavor into a singular, shining whole

Two Minds of a Western Poet

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

Meditations on the life of poetry by an award-winning poet

Coming After

Essays on Poetry

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

A collection of critical pieces by acclaimed poet Alice Notley, author of Mysteries of Small Houses and Disobedience

On Louise Gluck

Change What You See

Edited by Joanne Diehl
Subjects: Literary Studies, Poetry and Poetry Criticism, American Literature, Essay and Interview
Series: Under Discussion

Essays by leading critics, poets, and scholars that explore the work of recent U.S. poet laureate and Pulitzer prize winner Louise Glück

Poetry and What is Real

By Richard W. Tillinghast
Subjects: Literary Studies, American Literature, British and Irish Literatures, Essay and Interview
Series: Poets on Poetry

Selected Prose

By John Ashbery
Edited by Eugene Richie
Subjects: Literary Studies, American Literature, Poetry and Poetry Criticism, Essay and Interview, Art, Architecture
Series: Poets on Poetry

Fifty years of writing on literature, film, and art by one of the most influential poets and critics of our time

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

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

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

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

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

On the Poetry of Philip Levine

Stranger to Nothing

Edited by Christopher Buckley
Subjects: Literary Studies, Poetry and Poetry Criticism, American Literature, Essay and Interview
Series: Under Discussion

The first critical collection to focus on Levine

Talking All Morning

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

Engaging essays, interviews and poetry on solitude, politics, and the role of gender consciousness in the creative process

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