Passwords Primeval

20 American Poets in Their Own Words
Herausgeber: Leuzzi, Tony

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Billy Collins, Gerald Stern, Dorianne Laux, and 17 other prominent poets candidly discuss inspiration, craft, and living as a poet.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: BOA Editions
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Oktober 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 155mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 531g
• ISBN-13: 9781934414958
• ISBN-10: 1934414956
• Artikelnr.: 35424763

Autorenporträt

Tony Leuzzi has written three books of poetry, including Radiant Losses, which won the 2010 New Sins Editors' Prize. In preparation for Passwords Primeval: 20 American Poets in Their Own Words, Leuzzi interviewed 25 American poets across a five-year span. Many of the interviews were initially published in such journals as Arts & Letters, Jacket, Sentence, American Literary Review, Kenyon Review (online), National Poetry Review, Left Curve, Great River Review, EOAGH, and The Harvard Gay and Lesbian Review.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
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Michael Waters: "Writing by Ear"
Gary Young: "Horizontal Poetry"
Dorianne Laux: "Singing from a Wound"
Gary Soto: "To Write with Dark, Eternal Ink"
Patricia Smith: "Speaking through a Second Throat"
Scott Cairns: "A Glimpse of the Beautiful"
Martín Espada: "Putting Blood Back into Words"
Gerald Stern: "The Embrace of Everything"
Nathalie Handal: "Poems Woven from a Sacred Thread"
Stephen Dobyns: "Spontaneity and Surprise"
Karen Volkman: "By Way of Play and Accident"
Kevin Killian: "Poem as Gesture"
Peter Davis: "Pursuing Something Recklessly"
Dara Wier: "Bat Logic"
Bin Ramke: "Poetry Steeped in Intellectual Matter"
Mark Doty: "A Poetry of Expansiveness"
Billy Collins: "Poetry in Present Tense"
Carol Frost: "Balancing Images"
Robert Glück: "Abandoning the Middle Distance"
Arthur Sze: "Polysemous Poetry"