Book

Written in water, written in stone : twenty years of Poets on poetry / edited by Martin Lammon ; foreword by David Lehman.

Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, ©1996.

xiii, 288 pages ; 24 cm.

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.

Poets on poetry

Poets on poetry.

American poetry -- 20th century -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc.

Poetry -- Authorship.

Poetics.

Lammon, Martin, 1958-

Poets on poetry.

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.

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