Out to see America and satisfy his travel bug, W.T. Pfefferle resigned from his position as director of the writing program at Johns Hopkins University and hit the road to interview sixty-two poets about the significance of place in their work. The lively conversations that resu…
Out to see America and satisfy his travel bug, W.T. Pfefferle resigned from his position as director of the writing program at Johns Hopkins University and hit the road to interview sixty-two poets about the significance of place in their work. The lively conversations that resu…
Out to see America and satisfy his travel bug, W.T. Pfefferle resigned from his position as director of the writing program at Johns Hopkins University and hit the road to interview sixty-two poets about the significance of place in their work. The lively conversations that resu…
Out to see America and satisfy his travel bug, W.T. Pfefferle resigned from his position as director of the writing program at Johns Hopkins University and hit the road to interview sixty-two poets about the significance of place in their work. The lively conversations that resu…
Tells of an extended tour across the U.S. taken by the author and his wife, during which they visited with more than sixty poets, asking them about the importance of place in their work. This volume presents the text of those interviews, often accompanied by a poem from the auth…
Out to see America and satisfy his travel bug, W.T. Pfefferle resigned from his position as director of the writing program at Johns Hopkins University and hit the road to interview sixty-two poets about the significance of place in their work. The lively conversations that resu…
"In 1937 William Rose Benet sent a young Yale graduate student, Norman Holmes Pearson, to interview the sophisticated expatriate poet Hilda Doolittle during one of the few trips she made to America after going abroad in 1911. Until her death in 1961, they engaged in a prolonged …
In 1937 William Rose Benet sent a young Yale graduate student, Norman Holmes Pearson, to interview the sophisticated expatriate poet Hilda Doolittle during one of the few trips she made to America after going abroad in 1911. Until her death in 1961, they engaged in a prolonged a…
"Focusing on the poetry and cultural practice of Frank O'Hara, the great urban poet in the New York School during the 1950s and 1960s, the title explores the interwoven relationship between his urban poetics and the urban culture of New York, seeking to shed light on the poetic …
"Focusing on the poetry and cultural practice of Frank O'Hara, the great urban poet in the New York School during the 1950s and 1960s, the title explores the interwoven relationship between his urban poetics and the urban culture of New York, seeking to shed light on the poetic …
"New essays from the vantage point of very old age, once again "alternately lyrical and laugh-out-loud funny, "* from the former poet laureate of the United States *(New York Times)"--
"New essays from the vantage point of very old age, once again "alternately lyrical and laugh-out-loud funny, "* from the former poet laureate of the United States *(New York Times)"--
"New essays from the vantage point of very old age, once again "alternately lyrical and laugh-out-loud funny, "* from the former poet laureate of the United States *(New York Times)"-- In this collection of essays Hall discusses aging, the pleasures of solitude, and the sometim…
Prose reflections on the nature, nuances, and undiminished importance of poetry.