Acts of Mind : Conversations with Contemporary Poets /

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"There have been any number of books of interview with contemporary writers, but none precisely like this one. The author/editor has somehow managed to get these very different poets to follow his lead and (in many cases for the first time anywhere) to reveal much about their intellectual habit...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Jackson, Richard, 1946- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Tuscaloosa [Alabama] : The University of Alabama Press, 1984.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Poets, American.
Poetry > Authorship.
Poetics.
American poetry.
FICTION > General.
Poetique > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Poesie > Art d'ecrire.
Poesie americaine > 20e siecle > Histoire et critique.
Poetes americains > 20e siecle > Entretiens.
Poetics > History > 20th century.
American poetry > 20th century > History and criticism.
Poets, American > 20th century > Interviews.
Interviews.
History.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Preface; The Path of Saying (Stanley Plumly); The Sanctioned Babel (Miller Williams); Untelling the Hour (Mark Strand); The Domain of the Marvelous Prey (Charles Simic); The Hallowing of the Everyday (Jean Valentine); Event: Corrective: Cure: (A.R. Ammons); Stepping into the Sky (Carol Muske); Unnaming the Myths (W.S. Merwin); On the Horizon of Time (Robert Penn Warren); Distilled from Thin Air (Marvin Bell); The Imminence of a Revelation (John Ashbery); Renaming the Present (David St. John); Lives We Keep Wanting to Know (Philip Booth); Doubling the Difference (Heather McHugh).
  • Questions of Will (Robert Pack)Settling in Another Field (Maxine Kumin); Living the Layers of Time (Stanley Kunitz); Double Vision (Daniel Mark Epstein); Emergencies of the Moment (William Stafford); The Languages of Illusion (Dara Wier); The Mystery of Things That Are (Richard Wilbur); Before the Beginning (Donald Finkel); On the Margins of Dreams (Fred Chappell); Unbreakable Codes (Linda Pastan); Projecting the Literal Word (Robert Creeley); Answering the Dark (David Ignatow); Shaping Our Choices (Marge Piercy); Magic: Power: Activation: Transformation (Michael S. Harper).
  • On the Periphery of Time (Donald Hall)The Candle in the Pitcher (John Hollander); Selected Bibliography; Index.

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