"I find it one of the liveliest points of communication in the American poetry world. There is an incredible excitement to come to the church and read one's poems to the many other poets who congregate there, drawn to the church by its own energy and thrust."Donald Hall
From the introduction, by Anselm Berrigan:
For the poets closely involved with the Poetry Project since, and subsequent to, its inception, the interviews were an opportunity to speak directly to a community one could perceive as known, imaginary, expanding, unwieldy, intermittent, formative, desperately necessary, and sometimes peculiarly unsatisfying all at once. Community being the kind of term that often implies everything and nothing simultaneously, with the bottom falling out of the word depending on who happens to be wielding it. Poets can be particularly adept at using and exposing such terms.
"I find it one of the liveliest points of communication in the American poetry world. There is an incredible excitement to come to the church and read one's poems to the many other poets who congregate there, drawn to the church by its own energy and thrust."Donald Hall
From the introduction, by Anselm Berrigan:
For the poets closely involved with the Poetry Project since, and subsequent to, its inception, the interviews were an opportunity to speak directly to a community one could perceive as known, imaginary, expanding, unwieldy, intermittent, formative, desperately necessary, and sometimes peculiarly unsatisfying all at once. Community being the kind of term that often implies everything and nothing simultaneously, with the bottom falling out of the word depending on who happens to be wielding it. Poets can be particularly adept at using and exposing such terms.
What is Poetry? (Just kidding, I know you know): Interviews from The Poetry Project Newsletter (1983 - 2009)
440What is Poetry? (Just kidding, I know you know): Interviews from The Poetry Project Newsletter (1983 - 2009)
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Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9781940696393 |
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Publisher: | Wave Books |
Publication date: | 04/04/2017 |
Pages: | 440 |
Product dimensions: | 6.50(w) x 8.40(h) x 1.40(d) |