Books in the Poets on Poetry series

Jane Miller loves poetry. In these provocative and deeply insightful essays, she unpacks the work of giants like Adrienne Rich, Paul Celan, Marina Tsevetaeya, Osip Mandelstam, and Garcia Lorca alongside painters such as Caravaggio and Paul Klee, as well as ancient Chinese music and techniques of the contemporary poem.

The line between poetry (the delicate, surprising not-quite) and the essay (the emphatic what-about and so-there!) is thin, easily crossed. The essays collected in The Little Death of Self are meditations toward poetry by a poet who finds this mysterious genre the weirdest, most compelling of all human ways to imagine - or fathom - the great world.

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.

Kazim Ali uses a range of subjects - the politics of checkpoints at international borders; difficulties in translation; collaborations between poets and choreographers; and connections between poetry and landscape, or between biotechnology and the human body - to situate the individual human body into a larger global context, with all of its political and social implications.

An impassioned consideration of the place of poetry--and the poet--in an ever-changing world

An exploration of poetry as an expression of biology

In this penetrating yet personable collection of critical essays, David Baker explores how a poem works, how a poet thinks, and how the art of poetry has evolved-and is still evolving as a highly diverse, spacious, and inclusive art form.

Examines the subjects of poetry, language, and truth, the conflict between truth and art, and the range of human attitudes to the prospect of truth-speaking. This book also includes a series of comments on and judgements of the poets Coleridge, Clare, Eliot, Frost, Vachel Lindsay, Lowell, Pound, Dylan Thomas, and W C Williams.

From one of America's foremost contemporary poets, a scintillating, surprising collection of essays on everything from poetry and art to the fine art of sausage-making

Now back in print, two brilliant verse-essays on poets and poetry by an American master

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.

Paul Hoover's wide-ranging subjects include the position of poetry in the electronic age, the notion of doubleness in the work of Harryette Mullen and others, the lyricism of the New York School poets, and the role of reality in American poetry.

Collects unpublished interviews, poems, articles, aphorisms, and writing exercises from William Stafford, who kept a journal for nearly half a century and produced over 20,000 poems - a staggering output by any standard. The Answers Are Inside the Mountains confirms Stafford's enduringly important voice for our uncertain age.

Appraises the work of significant American poets in engaging and erudite essays by a leading critic and scholar

A collection of essays that explore poetics, personal identity, feminism, and modern and contemporary literature.

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.

Focusses on some of the renowned poets and artists, such as John Ashbery, Jean-Michel Basquiat, and Robert Creeley. This work contains eleven essays, which include: ""Passionate Spectator: On Frank O'Hara's Art Criticism""; ""At the Movies with Weldon Kees and Frank O'Hara""; ""The Poet as Art Critic (On John Ashbery and Frank O'Hara)""; and more.

A master of the lyric, Alfred Corn is also adept at working in forms, and has published several books featuring long poetic sequences, including a book-length narrative poem modeled on Dante's ""Divine Comedy"". This book features the poet/critic's personal, epistolary encounter with Flannery O'Connor.

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

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.

An engaging and intimate collection by an American original

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