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The Spiral of Memory
With the recently-published The Woman Who Fell from the Sky , Joy Harjo has emerged as one of the most powerful Native American voices of her generation. Over the past two decades, …
Goatfoot Milktongue Twinbird
These essays and interviews from 1970-76 are lively, pointed, often polemical. They derive from a unified point of view about creativity and about the function of poetry. For the …
Orpheus in the Bronx
What unifies the essays in ""Orpheus in the Bronx"", writes author Reginald Shepherd, ""is a resolute defense of poetry's autonomy, and a celebration of the liberatory and utopian …
Curiosities
These essays reveal the poet's fascination with the relationship between language and emotional life.
Trying to Say It
As one of Robert Frost's last students, Philip Booth has for more than four decades written poems prized for their clarity and depth. As founder of the Syracuse University Creative …
Written in Water, Written in Stone
For twenty years, the Poets on Poetry series, under the editorship of Donald Hall, has provided readers with a variety of prose reflections, interviews, essays, and other works by …
No Evil Star
No Evil Star collects the best of Anne Sexton's prose and traces her development as a literary artist. Beginning with Sexton's experiences in Robert Lowell's classroom at Boston …
Bardic Deadlines
In Bardic Deadlines, writer and editor Geoffrey O'Brien collects twenty of his essays on poetry that originally appeared in the Voice Literary Supplement and the New York Review of …
Blue Notes
Yusef Komunyakaa discusses the influences of blues and jazz music and poetry on his own writing, comments on some of his own poems, selects interviews that reveal the artistic …
Walking Down the Stairs
Collects Kinnell's thoughts about poetry.
Joy (Or Something Darker, but Like It)
Joy (Or Something Darker, but Like It), the first book of nonfiction by poet Nathaniel Perry, is a group of essays that considers poetry in the context of parenting—what poems and …
The Uncertain Certainty
Provides a critical and autobiographical context for viewing Simic's poetry.