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Ambition and Survival: Becoming a Poet is a collection of stirring personal essays and critical prose on a wide range of subjects: reading Paradise Lost in Guatemala, recalling violent episodes from the poet's youth, traveling in Africa with an eccentric father, as well as a ser…
"When Harriet Monroe founded Poetry magazine in Chicago in 1912, she began with an image: the Open Door. 'May the great poet we are looking for never find it shut, or half-shut, against his ample genius!' For a century, the most important and enduring poets have walked through t…