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Talk
Poetry
Poems and Interviews with Nine American Poets
David Baker
Important
poets talking about the art today
“David
Baker has brought together in this remarkable volume some
of the most probing and revelatory interviews he has conducted
for our pages—interviews that plunge quickly beyond
the trivial to the deep
concerns, the personal insights, the creative sparks that
can ignite in
conversation with these marvelous poets.”
—David Lynn, editor of the Kenyon Review
“With
his incisive and instructive questions, David Baker is able
to draw out responses that touch upon not only the lives and
poetic craft of his subjects, but also upon the nature of
art and the life of poetry itself. This is without question
a must-have volume for everyone who loves American poetry.”
—David St. John, author of Auroras: New Poems
“David
Baker, a consummate poet, is also one of our most intelligent,
open-minded and readable critics. In this book, at once a
personal
anthology and a collection of perceptive, lively interviews,
he gives
readers a sense of the scope of American poetry today, with
a keen eye for its convergences as well as its dissents.”
—Marilyn Hacker, author of Names: Poems
What is
more direct and intimate than one-to-one conversation? Here
two forces in American poetry, the Kenyon Review
and the University of Arkansas Press, bring together discussions
between one of America’s leading poets and editors,
David Baker, and nine of the most exciting poets of our day.
The poets, who represent a wide array of vocations and aesthetic
positions, open up about their writing processes, their reading
and education, their hopes for and discontents with the contemporary
scene, and much more, treating readers to a view of the range
and capacity of contemporary American poetry.
David
Baker is author or editor of fourteen books
of poetry and criticism. He holds the Thomas B. Fordham Chair
at Denison University, teaches regularly in the Warren Wilson
College MFA program, and is the poetry editor of the Kenyon
Review.
February
6 X 9, 172 pages
9 images
$19.95 paper
978-1-55728-981-0
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