Giving their word
Subtitle: conversations with contemporary poets
By: [compiled by] Steven Ratiner.
Contributors: Ratiner, Steven.
Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Amherst
Language: eng
Number of pages: 268
Subjects: Poets, American -- 20th century -- Interviews.; American poetry -- 20th century -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc.; Poetry, Modern -- 20th century -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc.; Poets -- 20th century -- Interviews.; Poetry -- Authorship.
Genres: Interviews.
Description: "Based on a three-year series of interviews conducted by Steven Ratiner for the Christian Science Monitor, this book offers extended conversations with twelve of today's most influential poets. Published here in their entirety for the first time, their comments are wonderfully detailed, refreshingly honest, and provide the sort of intimate introduction to both poet and text that readers are rarely privileged to enjoy.

In the book's closing piece, Steven Ratiner makes a return visit to Donald Hall's New Hampshire farm to conduct a moving interview shortly before the publication of Hall's collection Without, which focused on the death of his wife, poet Jane Kenyon."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 267-268).
Table of contents: title: William Stafford : opening the moment; title: Mary Oliver : a solitary walk; title: John Montague : poetry and the common work; title: Charles Simic : the toy of language; title: Seamus Heaney : the words worth saying; title: Donald Hall : the work that makes a home; title: Maxine Kumin : new life in the barn; title: Carolyn Forchě : the poetry of witness; title: Marti̕n Espada : poetry and the burden of history; title: Marge Piercy : the communal voice; title: Rita Dove : a chorus of voices; title: Bei Dao : reclaiming the word; title: Donald Hall : without and within.