Talk poetry : poems and interviews with nine American poets / David Baker.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Baker, David, 1954-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry--21st century.

American poetry.

Poets, American--21st century--Interviews.

Poets, American.

Poetry--Authorship.

Poetry.

Genre:

Interviews.

Physical Description:

xv, 203 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Fayetteville : University of Arkansas Press, 2012.

Summary:

What is more direct and intimate than one-to-one conversation? Here two forces in American poetry, the Kenyan 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 or 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. Book jacket.

Contents:

Linda Gregerson

"Prodigal" 3

"Over Easy" 6

So I Go to Words: A Conversation with Linda Gregerson 8

Fady Joudah

"Still Life" 23

"Smoke" 25

"Twice a River" 26

Poems by Mahmoud Darwish

"If I Were Another" 28

"Rustle" 29

"At a Train Station That Fell Off the Map" 30

Past the Centrality of Suffering: A Conversation with Fady Joudah 35

Ted Kooser

"Success" 51

"Splitting an Order" 52

"Bad News" 53

"Spanish Lessons" 54

"Two Men on an Errand" 55

Something Just Happens: A Conversation with Ted Kooser 56

W. S. Merwin

"Homecoming" 73

"From the Gray Legends" 74

"Before Midsummer above the River Again" 76

"By the Front Door"77

Leave the Door Open: A Conversation with W. S. Merwin 78

Alice Notley

"When You Arrived" 93

"Attila the Gypsy Shakes Her Cup" 94

"Hotel Truth Room" 96

"To Frank" 97

"We Have to Know How to Make the New One" 99

Evident Being: A Conversation with Alice Notley 101

Meghan O'Rourke

"Winter Palace" 117

"The Lost Sister" 118

"Peep Show" 119

"Sandy Hook" 120

"War Lullaby" 121

That Sensation of Privilege and Loss: A Conversation with Meghan O'Rourke 122

Carl Phillips

"Almost Tenderly" 137

"Conquest" 138

"Tell Me a Story" 139

"Next Stop, Arcadia" 140

"The Life You Save" 141

Wrestling toward a Temporary Answer: A Conversation with Carl Phillips142

Stanley Plumly

"Posthumous Keats" 157

"Constable's Clouds for Keats" 159

Excerpt from "This Mortal Body," Posthumous Keats 161

Living through It: A Conversation with Stanley Plumly 168

Arthur Sze

"After a New Moon" 181

"Returning to Northern New Mexico after a Trip to Asia" 182

"Spectral Line" 183

Demolishing Hierarchy: A Conversation with Arthur Sze 190.

Notes:

"A Kenyon Review Book"

ISBN:

9781557289810

1557289816

OCLC:

768417887