Tuesday, April 27, 2010

News at Eleven: A few tapes were missing, including those

for Robert Creeley and John Ashbery, and some people had to be left out, but the end result is one of the best books you will ever read on how poems are actually made.

Here are Robert Pinsky, James Merrill, Lucille Clifton, Stanley Plumly, Muriel Rukeyser, Charles Simic, Frank Bidart, Galway Kinnell, Li-Young Lee, Eamon Grennan, Marilyn Hacker and more than a dozen others talking about how they think and work. [Pearl] London herself prepared for her guests by reading everything they had written, both poetry and prose.

from The Washington Post: Michael Dirda reviews 'Poetry in Person'

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