Poetry in person
Subtitle: 25 years of conversation with America's poets
By: edited by Alexander Neubauer.
Contributors: Neubauer, Alexander.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 343
ISBN-13: 9780307269676
Subjects: American poetry -- 21st century; Poets, American -- 20th century -- Interviews; Poets, American -- 21st century -- Interviews; Poetry -- Authorship; Poetics
Genres: Interviews
Description: From Maxine Kumin in 1973 to Eamon Grennan in 1996, including Amy Clampitt, Marilyn Hacker, Paul Muldoon, Nobel laureate Derek Walcott, and U.S. poet laureates Robert Hass, Robert Pinsky, Louise Gluck, and Charles Simic, "Poetry in Person" follows an extraordinary range of poets as they create their poems and offers numerous illustrations of the original drafts, which bring their processes to light.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.