Social Science
1. 
Collected Literary Essays and Talks
Explores the way poetry can combine social awareness and lyric vision
| Format | Publication year | Price | Status | Purchasing option |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Paper | 2016 | $32.95 | Available | Add Paper for "The Skin of Meaning" to Cart |
| Hardcover | 2016 | $79.95 | Available | Add Hardcover for "The Skin of Meaning" to Cart |
| Ebook | 2016 | Available | View Purchasing Options for Ebook, "The Skin of Meaning" |
1.
Collected Literary Essays and Talks
Explores the way poetry can combine social awareness and lyric vision
| Format | Publication year | Price | Status | Purchasing option |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Paper | 2016 | $32.95 | Available | Add Paper for "The Skin of Meaning" to Cart |
| Hardcover | 2016 | $79.95 | Available | Add Hardcover for "The Skin of Meaning" to Cart |
| Ebook | 2016 | Available | View Purchasing Options for Ebook, "The Skin of Meaning" |
1.
Collected Literary Essays and Talks
| Format | Publication year | Price | Status | Purchasing option |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Paper | 2016 | $32.95 | Available | Add Paper for "The Skin of Meaning" to Cart |
| Hardcover | 2016 | $79.95 | Available | Add Hardcover for "The Skin of Meaning" to Cart |
| Ebook | 2016 | Available | View Purchasing Options for Ebook, "The Skin of Meaning" |
2. 
Lectures, Criticism, and Occasional Prose
A rich assortment of the writings of rediscovered octogenarian poet Josephine Jacobsen
| Format | Publication year | Price | Status | Purchasing option |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Paper | 2002 | $21.95 | Available | Add Paper for "The Instant of Knowing" to Cart |
3. 
Essays, Interviews, and Commentaries
Gathers essays, interviews, poems, and performance texts by one of America's most significant contemporary poets
| Format | Publication year | Price | Status | Purchasing option |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Paper | 2000 | $26.95 | Available | Add Paper for "Blue Notes" to Cart |
| Hardcover | 2000 | $84.95 | Available | Add Hardcover for "Blue Notes" to Cart |
3.
Essays, Interviews, and Commentaries
Gathers essays, interviews, poems, and performance texts by one of America's most significant contemporary poets
| Format | Publication year | Price | Status | Purchasing option |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Paper | 2000 | $26.95 | Available | Add Paper for "Blue Notes" to Cart |
| Hardcover | 2000 | $84.95 | Available | Add Hardcover for "Blue Notes" to Cart |
4. 
Essays on Poetry, Politics, and the Erotic
Essays that explore the meaning of politics, love, and spiritual life in American poetry from Whitman to the present
| Format | Publication year | Price | Status | Purchasing option |
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| Paper | 2000 | $20.95 | Available | Add Paper for "Dancing at the Devil's Party" to Cart |
| Hardcover | 2000 | $74.95 | Available | Add Hardcover for "Dancing at the Devil's Party" to Cart |
4.
Essays on Poetry, Politics, and the Erotic
Essays that explore the meaning of politics, love, and spiritual life in American poetry from Whitman to the present
| Format | Publication year | Price | Status | Purchasing option |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Paper | 2000 | $20.95 | Available | Add Paper for "Dancing at the Devil's Party" to Cart |
| Hardcover | 2000 | $74.95 | Available | Add Hardcover for "Dancing at the Devil's Party" to Cart |
5. 
Essays in Criticism and Autobiography
Memoirs and criticism that chronicle some of the most significant literary currents of our time
| Format | Publication year | Price | Status | Purchasing option |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Paper | 1999 | $15.95 | Available | Add Paper for "The Occasions of Poetry" to Cart |
6. 
Recovers poet May Swenson's fiction, criticism, and drama--and her correspondence with Elizabeth Bishop
| Format | Publication year | Price | Status | Purchasing option |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hardcover | 1998 | $45.00 | Available | Add Hardcover for "Made with Words" to Cart |
7. 
Truth, Autobiography, and the Shape of the Self
Assesses the state of women's poetry today while celebrating its intrinsic diversity
| Format | Publication year | Price | Status | Purchasing option |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Paper | 1997 | $21.95 | Available | Add Paper for "Women and Poetry" to Cart |
8. 
A Memoir of Growing Up in the 50s
America the beautiful: baseball, summer camp, and homophobia.
| Format | Publication year | Price | Status | Purchasing option |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Paper | 1997 | $21.95 | Available | Add Paper for "Guns and Boyhood in America" to Cart |
9. 
Interviews
Intimate, illuminating conversations with one of the most important voices in contemporary American poetry
| Format | Publication year | Price | Status | Purchasing option |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Paper | 1996 | $25.95 | Available | Add Paper for "The Spiral of Memory" to Cart |
| Ebook | 2021 | Available | View Purchasing Options for Ebook, "The Spiral of Memory" |
9.
Interviews
Intimate, illuminating conversations with one of the most important voices in contemporary American poetry
| Format | Publication year | Price | Status | Purchasing option |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Paper | 1996 | $25.95 | Available | Add Paper for "The Spiral of Memory" to Cart |
| Ebook | 2021 | Available | View Purchasing Options for Ebook, "The Spiral of Memory" |
10. 
A rich gathering of evocative essays that link literature and the world beyond it
| Format | Publication year | Price | Status | Purchasing option |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Paper | 1995 | $20.95 | Available | Add Paper for "Poetry's Old Air" to Cart |
11. 
Essays, Memoirs, and an Interview
The first collection of Anglo-American poet Thom Gunn's prose reflections on the poet's craft.
| Format | Publication year | Price | Status | Purchasing option |
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| Paper | 1994 | $18.95 | Available | Add Paper for "Shelf Life" to Cart |
12. 
Essays on Poetry, Culture, and Travel
Essays that explore literature, art, and contemporary culture and their connections to time and place
| Format | Publication year | Price | Status | Purchasing option |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Paper | 1992 | $21.95 | Available | Add Paper for "Working Time" to Cart |
| Ebook | 2022 | Available | View Purchasing Options for Ebook, "Working Time" |
12.
Essays on Poetry, Culture, and Travel
Essays that explore literature, art, and contemporary culture and their connections to time and place
| Format | Publication year | Price | Status | Purchasing option |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Paper | 1992 | $21.95 | Available | Add Paper for "Working Time" to Cart |
| Ebook | 2022 | Available | View Purchasing Options for Ebook, "Working Time" |
13. 
Essays
Reflecting on her poetic predecessors and contemporaries, Amy Clampitt reveals the many connections in their craft
| Format | Publication year | Price | Status | Purchasing option |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Paper | 1991 | $20.95 | Available | Add Paper for "Predecessors, Et Cetera" to Cart |
14. 
Essays on Poetry
Gallagher writes of contemporary poets and of the influences on her poetry
| Format | Publication year | Price | Status | Purchasing option |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Paper | 1987 | $19.95 | Available | Add Paper for "A Concert of Tenses" to Cart |
15. 
Selected Essays, Interviews, and Prose
Collects the best of Anne Sexton's memoirs and prose reflections on her development as a poet
| Format | Publication year | Price | Status | Purchasing option |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Paper | 1985 | $27.95 | Available | Add Paper for "No Evil Star" to Cart |
16. 
A collection of essays on poetry and the experiences that influenced this poet
| Format | Publication year | Price | Status | Purchasing option |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Paper | 1984 | $27.95 | Available | Add Paper for "Collected Prose" to Cart |
| Ebook | 2021 | Available | View Purchasing Options for Ebook, "Collected Prose" |
16.
A collection of essays on poetry and the experiences that influenced this poet
| Format | Publication year | Price | Status | Purchasing option |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Paper | 1984 | $27.95 | Available | Add Paper for "Collected Prose" to Cart |
| Ebook | 2021 | Available | View Purchasing Options for Ebook, "Collected Prose" |
17. 
Essays on women poets and on the relationship between gender and creativity
| Format | Publication year | Price | Status | Purchasing option |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Paper | 1983 | $20.95 | Available | Add Paper for "Writing Like a Woman" to Cart |
18. 
Piercy writes of women and poetry and of woman becoming poet
| Format | Publication year | Price | Status | Purchasing option |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Paper | 1983 | $24.95 | Available | Add Paper for "Parti-Colored Blocks for a Quilt" to Cart |
19. 
Essays on Poets, Poetry, and Country Living
Kumin reflects on the process of writing poetry and on life in the country
| Format | Publication year | Price | Status | Purchasing option |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Paper | 1980 | $24.95 | Available | Add Paper for "To Make a Prairie" to Cart |
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