Twenty-eight contemporary American poets reflect on the poems that have most influenced their own creative vision and offer their best new works in this examination of poetic expression. Each entry includes a new poem from the author, the text of a poem or poems that particularly influenced the development of the new poem, and an essay about that influence. The dialogue created between the new works of the poets and the poems that they love provides insight into the poetic process and speaks to the meaning and endurance of great art.
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This is a large set of contributions from living poets about how they are affected and influenced by specific other poets and novelists. I think these first-hand accounts about how poets see their own and others' work are more valuable to writers than are the writings of critics about poetry from the outside. The subtitle is "influence and mastery" but by and large the contributors disavow the latter. The book contains a piece by each poet, other poets' work they choose to talk about, and a short discussion... more info
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