Bøger i Poets on Poetry serien

How a poem tells a story, and the importance of narrative as core of a poem's body and key to its soul

Essays that explore the meaning of politics, love, and spiritual life in American poetry from Whitman to the present

A varied and generous sampling of more than a decade's worth of prose by an important poet

Part of the ""Poets on Poetry"" series, this title examines not only other writers' works with a critical eye, but also breaks boundaries in the author's exploration of the outer and inner reaches of the human condition. Included here are essays on April Bernard, Robinson Jeffers, Donald Justice, Pablo Neruda, Gerald Stern, Richard Wilson, and more.

Collects sixteen essays by late Tony Hoagland. Gathered by Hoagland himself into a volume for the Poets on Poetry series, these pieces grapple with an expansive range of poetic and cultural concerns - and the surprising and necessary knowledge to be found where they cross paths.

Gathering a decade of writing on poetry, Philip Metres widens our sense of poetry as a way of being in the world, proposing that poems can offer a permeability to marginalized voices and a shelter from the imperial noise and despair that can silence us.

Gathers Rigoberto Gonzalez's most important essays and book reviews that consider the work of emerging poets whose identities and political positions are transforming what readers expect from contemporary poetry. Many of these voices represent intersectional communities, such as queer writers of colour, and many writers have deep connections to their Latino communities.

In this collection, Aaron Shurin has brought together thirty years' worth of his provocative essays. Fuelled by gender and queer studies and combined with radical traditions in poetry, Shurin's essays combine a highly personal and lyrical vision with a trenchant social analysis of poetry's possibilities.

Collects for the first time the prose writings of A.R. Ammons, one of America's most important and enduring contemporary poets. Set in Motion includes essays, reviews, and interviews as well as a selection of Ammons's poems, with commentary from the author about their inspiration and effects.

Presents a new attitude toward the teaching and practice of writing - a writer isn't simply a craftsman with something to say and the skill to say it. Rather, a writer brings those attributes into a process that is filled with exciting emergencies and opportunities. In the end, something emerges that is greater than the sum of its parts.

Brings together Marilyn Krysl's essays on the origins of language and poetry, poetic form, the poetry of witness, and poetry's collaboration with the healing arts. Beginning with pieces on her own origins as a poet, she branches into poetry's profound spiritual and political possibilities, drawing on rich examples from poets such as Anna Akhmatova, W.S. Merwin, and Venus Khoury-Ghata.

A poetry handbook that places poststructuralist and postmodern ways of thinking alongside formalist modes, making explicit points of overlap and tension that are usually tacit. Each of Natasha Saje's nine essays addresses a topic of central concern to readers and writers of poetry while also making an argument about poetic language and ideology.

Collects reviews, essays, memoirs, and interviews by acclaimed poet Charles Wright. This collection includes meditations on the details of memory and what it means to visit the past; the vices of titleism and the hydrosyllabic foot in poetry; a comparison of poems and journeys; an attempt to define "image"; and discussions of the current state of poetry.