num_pages: 319
description: "This anthology brings together essays by 20th-century poets on their own some concern themselves with its deep sources and ultimate justifications; others deal with technique, controversies among schools, the experience behind particular poems. The great Modernists of most countries are presented here—Paul Valéry, Federico García Lorca, Boris Pasternak, Fernando Pessoa, Eugenio Montale, Wallace Stevens—as are a range of younger, less eminent figures from the English-speaking Seamus Heaney, Denise Levertov, Wendell Berry. . . . The reader will find here a lively debate over the individualistic and the communal ends served by poetry, and over other issues that divide inspiration and craft; the use or the condemnation of science; traditional and 'organic' form."—Alan Williamson, New York Times Book Review
language: English
title: The Poet's Work: 29 Poets on the Origins and Practice of Their Art
titlecomplete: The Poet's Work: 29 Poets on the Origins and Practice of Their Art
genres: Crafts, Essays, Writing, Anthologies, Criticism, Nonfiction, Poetry
ratings_count: 49
publisher: University of Chicago Press