Bøger i Poets on Poetry serien

In these essays, Bruce Bond interrogates the commonly accepted notion that all poetry since modernism tends toward one of two traditions: that of a more architectural sensibility with its resistance to metaphysics, and that of a latter-day Romantic sensibility, which finds its authority in a metaphysics authenticated by the individual imagination.

Thinking about parenting through the lens of poetry

Celebrating the voices, current and past, that surface in lyric poetry

A critical look at transcendence and a radical delight with language

Jane Miller loves poetry. In these provocative and deeply insightful essays, she unpacks the work of giants like Adrienne Rich, Paul Celan, Marina Tsevetaeya, Osip Mandelstam, and Garcia Lorca alongside painters such as Caravaggio and Paul Klee, as well as ancient Chinese music and techniques of the contemporary poem.

In this collection, Major Jackson reveals and revels in the work of poetry to not only limn and give access to the intellectual width and spiritual depth of poets, but also to amplify the controversies and inner conflicts that define our age: political unrest, climate crises, the fallout from traumas, and the social function of the art itself.

The latest offering in the Poets on Poetry series from the acclaimed poet, critic, and current chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts

A posthumous collection of essays, reviews, and interviews by Larry Levis

An exploration of poetry as an expression of biology

A collection of essays which celebrate the liberatory and utopian possibilities that poetry's autonomy offers.

Collects unpublished interviews, poems, articles, aphorisms, and writing exercises from William Stafford, who kept a journal for nearly half a century and produced over 20,000 poems - a staggering output by any standard. The Answers Are Inside the Mountains confirms Stafford's enduringly important voice for our uncertain age.

Brings together C.K. Williams' meditations on psychology, an epistemology of poems, considerations of poetry and its relations to history and to the novel, exploring the causes and consequences of that fruitful breakdown of language the author calls ""narrative dysfunction"".

Gathers essays, interviews, poems, and performance texts by one of America's most significant contemporary poets

Presents a new attitude toward the teaching and practice of writing - a writer isn't simply a craftsman with something to say and the skill to say it. Rather, a writer brings those attributes into a process that is filled with exciting emergencies and opportunities. In the end, something emerges that is greater than the sum of its parts.

A poetry handbook that places poststructuralist and postmodern ways of thinking alongside formalist modes, making explicit points of overlap and tension that are usually tacit. Each of Natasha Saje's nine essays addresses a topic of central concern to readers and writers of poetry while also making an argument about poetic language and ideology.