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- catalog abstract ""Based on a three-year series of interviews conducted by Steven Ratiner for the Christian Science Monitor, this book offers extended conversations with twelve of today's most influential poets. Published here in their entirety for the first time, their comments are wonderfully detailed, refreshingly honest, and provide the sort of intimate introduction to both poet and text that readers are rarely privileged to enjoy. In the book's closing piece, Steven Ratiner makes a return visit to Donald Hall's New Hampshire farm to conduct a moving interview shortly before the publication of Hall's collection Without, which focused on the death of his wife, poet Jane Kenyon."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b12644047.
- catalog created "c2002.".
- catalog date "2002".
- catalog date "c2002.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2002.".
- catalog description ""Based on a three-year series of interviews conducted by Steven Ratiner for the Christian Science Monitor, this book offers extended conversations with twelve of today's most influential poets. Published here in their entirety for the first time, their comments are wonderfully detailed, refreshingly honest, and provide the sort of intimate introduction to both poet and text that readers are rarely privileged to enjoy. In the book's closing piece, Steven Ratiner makes a return visit to Donald Hall's New Hampshire farm to conduct a moving interview shortly before the publication of Hall's collection Without, which focused on the death of his wife, poet Jane Kenyon."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references.".
- catalog description "William Stafford: opening the moment -- Mary Oliver: a solitary walk -- John Montague: poetry and the common work -- Charles Simic: the toy of language -- Seamus Heaney: the words worth saying -- Donald Hall: the work that makes a home -- Maxine Kumin: new life in the barn -- Carolyn Forchě: the poetry of witness -- Marti̕n Espada: poetry and the burden of history -- Marge Piercy: the communal voice -- Rita Dove: a chorus of voices -- Bei Dao: reclaiming the word -- Donald Hall: without and within.".
- catalog extent "xiii, 268 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Giving their word.".
- catalog identifier "1558493573 (alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Giving their word.".
- catalog issued "2002".
- catalog issued "c2002.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press,".
- catalog relation "Giving their word.".
- catalog subject "811/.5409 21".
- catalog subject "American poetry 20th century History and criticism Theory, etc.".
- catalog subject "PS325 .G58 2002".
- catalog subject "Poetry Authorship.".
- catalog subject "Poetry, Modern 20th century History and criticism Theory, etc.".
- catalog subject "Poets 20th century Interviews.".
- catalog subject "Poets, American 20th century Interviews.".
- catalog tableOfContents "William Stafford: opening the moment -- Mary Oliver: a solitary walk -- John Montague: poetry and the common work -- Charles Simic: the toy of language -- Seamus Heaney: the words worth saying -- Donald Hall: the work that makes a home -- Maxine Kumin: new life in the barn -- Carolyn Forchě: the poetry of witness -- Marti̕n Espada: poetry and the burden of history -- Marge Piercy: the communal voice -- Rita Dove: a chorus of voices -- Bei Dao: reclaiming the word -- Donald Hall: without and within.".
- catalog title "Giving their word : conversations with contemporary poets / [compiled by] Steven Ratiner.".
- catalog type "text".