Letters to Poets: Conversations About Poetics, Politics, and Community
“This courageous and visionary book enacts and embodies a concrete “relational  aesthetics” that gives poetic voices an epistolary space— for linguistic intimacy and soul-sharing.  Don't miss it!”—Cornel West“In the age of the quick email, it is wonderful to pick up the heft of Letters to Poets, by poets, and for poets. Here are epistles that demonstrate that the pleasures of poetry are clustered around the pleasures of thinking with others.” —Juliana Spahr“These letters continue in the tradition of Rilke's Letters to a Young Poet. Unlike Rilke's letters, this is a collection of many different established poets communing by letter with younger, emerging poets. These letters bear advice, philosophical discourse, theoretical strategies, dreams, weather reports, questions, answers, and, poetry. What happens here is a kind of call and response by letter. And as in Rilke's letters, these missives are lively, urgent, wise, erudite, witty, political and absolutely necessary to a contemporary discussion of the current state of the making of poetry.”  —Joy Harjo“Here are some possible strategies to navigate this world and some great bits of wisdom; you will need them.”—Ridiculous Human Things