Written in water, written in stone : twenty years of Poets on poetry
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 America's leading contemporary poets. With Written in Water, Written in Stone, Martin Lammon celebrates the longevity and literary success of the series by gathering together exemplary selections from many of its volumes. Organized by theme ranging from language and form, politics and poetry, to the literary industry, Written in Water, Written in Stone offers a remarkable survey of the salient issues that concern contemporary poets and their readers. -- Amazon.com
Print Book, English, ©1996
University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor, ©1996
Criticism, interpretation, etc
xiii, 288 pages ; 24 cm.
9780472096343, 9780472066346, 0472096346, 047206634X
35559201
Robert Frost and the better half of poetry / Amy Clampitt
Dull subjects / William Matthews
Improvisations on form and measure / Charles Wright
The interrupted scheme : some thoughts on disorder and order in the lives of poets and the lives of poems / Gregory Orr
What does art "imitate", and how? / Marvin Bell
Notes on poetic form / David Lehman
Sea level / Jane Miller
From an interview with Linda Wagner / Robert Creeley
From the pure clear word : an interview with Dave Smith
The necessity of the personal / David Ignatow
Reflections on narrative poetry / Louis Simpson
The poem as a time machine / Tess Gallagher
On poets and poetry today / John Logan
Poetry and ambition / Donald Hall
Four pot shots at poetry / Robert Francis
Poetry as the dialogue we all hope someone is listening to / Diane Wakoski
The greatest English lyric? A new reading of Joe E. Skilmer's "Therese" / John Frederick Nims
The new class / Richard Kostelantz
Fame, fortune, and other tawdry illusions / Marge Piercy
From knots of wild energy : an interview with Wayne Dodd / Robert Bly
"How it strikes a contemporary" : reflections on poetry and the role of the poet / Robert Hayden
Negative capability and its children / Charles Simic
From an interview with Calvin Bedient
The freak show / Anne Sexton
A few thoughts following Professor Clausen's essay / Hayden Carruth
Two Saturday nights : rewriting a poem / Thom Gunn
The end of a golden string / William Stafford
The luck of it / William Meredith
Bus stop : or, fear and loneliness on Potrero Hill / Donald Justice
A wild surmise : motherhood and poetry / Alicia Ostriker
An interview with Margaret Edwards / Galway Kinnell
Estivating-1973 / Maxine Kumin
The function of the poet / Fred Chappell