num_pages: 296
description: Twenty essays on the craft of writing and the nature of lyric poetry in which the author pays homage to poets whose high achievements have inspired his own work and reflects on the related pleasures of poetry, laughter and music.
language: English
title: The Long View: Essays on the Discipline of Hope and Poetic Craft
titlecomplete: The Long View: Essays on the Discipline of Hope and Poetic Craft
publisher: University of Massachusetts Press