Essay and Interview
1. 
A critical look at transcendence and a radical delight with language
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A critical look at transcendence and a radical delight with language
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2. 
Essays on Writing and Form
An accessible and personable guide to writing creative nonfiction
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| Paper | 2021 | $24.95 | Available | Add Paper for "A Braided Heart" to Cart |
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Essays on Writing and Form
An accessible and personable guide to writing creative nonfiction
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| Paper | 2021 | $24.95 | Available | Add Paper for "A Braided Heart" to Cart |
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2.
Essays on Writing and Form
An accessible and personable guide to writing creative nonfiction
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| Paper | 2021 | $24.95 | Available | Add Paper for "A Braided Heart" to Cart |
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3. 
Essays on the 21st-Century American Poetry of Engagement
A groundbreaking collection explores contemporary American poetry’s relation to social critique and the public sphere
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| Paper | 2016 | $39.95 | Available | Add Paper for "The News from Poems" to Cart |
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Essays on the 21st-Century American Poetry of Engagement
A groundbreaking collection explores contemporary American poetry’s relation to social critique and the public sphere
| Format | Publication year | Price | Status | Purchasing option |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Paper | 2016 | $39.95 | Available | Add Paper for "The News from Poems" to Cart |
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Essays on the 21st-Century American Poetry of Engagement
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| Paper | 2016 | $39.95 | Available | Add Paper for "The News from Poems" to Cart |
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4. 
Essays and Other Prose
Essays on poetry by the most important poet-lawyer of our era
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| Paper | 2011 | $25.95 | Available | Add Paper for "The Game Changed" to Cart |
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4.
Essays and Other Prose
Essays on poetry by the most important poet-lawyer of our era
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| Paper | 2011 | $25.95 | Available | Add Paper for "The Game Changed" to Cart |
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4.
Essays and Other Prose
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| Paper | 2011 | $25.95 | Available | Add Paper for "The Game Changed" to Cart |
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5. 
A humorous and insightful collection of essays on poetry and its process
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| Paper | 2011 | $27.95 | Available | Add Paper for "Diary of a Poem" to Cart |
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5.
A humorous and insightful collection of essays on poetry and its process
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| Paper | 2011 | $27.95 | Available | Add Paper for "Diary of a Poem" to Cart |
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6. 
Meditations on the life of poetry by an award-winning poet
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| Paper | 2011 | $29.95 | Available | Add Paper for "Two Minds of a Western Poet" to Cart |
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6.
Meditations on the life of poetry by an award-winning poet
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| Paper | 2011 | $29.95 | Available | Add Paper for "Two Minds of a Western Poet" to Cart |
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7. 
The first appearance in English of important prose works by poet C. P. Cavafy
| Format | Publication year | Price | Status | Purchasing option |
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| Paper | 2010 | $25.95 | Available | Add Paper for "Selected Prose Works" to Cart |
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7.
The first appearance in English of important prose works by poet C. P. Cavafy
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| Paper | 2010 | $25.95 | Available | Add Paper for "Selected Prose Works" to Cart |
| Hardcover | 2010 | $70.00 | Available | Add Hardcover for "Selected Prose Works" to Cart |
8. 
Essays on Poets and Poetry, 1987-2009
Editor of the acclaimed Poets on Poetry series collects her own essays on the subject
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| Paper | 2010 | $33.50 | Available | Add Paper for "Unauthorized Voices" to Cart |
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8.
Essays on Poets and Poetry, 1987-2009
Editor of the acclaimed Poets on Poetry series collects her own essays on the subject
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| Paper | 2010 | $33.50 | Available | Add Paper for "Unauthorized Voices" to Cart |
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9. 
Essays and Commentaries
Essays from a nationally acclaimed Latino poet
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| Paper | 2010 | $29.95 | Available | Add Paper for "The Lover of a Subversive Is Also a Subversive" to Cart |
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Essays and Commentaries
Essays from a nationally acclaimed Latino poet
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| Paper | 2010 | $29.95 | Available | Add Paper for "The Lover of a Subversive Is Also a Subversive" to Cart |
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10. 
A prolific, popular writer takes on everything from the 1940s to E. L. Doctorow to blogging
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| Paper | 2010 | $27.95 | Available | Add Paper for "Still on Call" to Cart |
11. 
Award-winning poet explores the exhilaration of reading
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Award-winning poet explores the exhilaration of reading
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12. 
A prominent poet brings the experience of the world to her struggles to find her place in America, and explores what the many cultures in this country mean for poets practicing their craft
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| Paper | 2009 | $26.95 | Available | Add Paper for "Poetics of Dislocation" to Cart |
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A prominent poet brings the experience of the world to her struggles to find her place in America, and explores what the many cultures in this country mean for poets practicing their craft
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| Paper | 2009 | $26.95 | Available | Add Paper for "Poetics of Dislocation" to Cart |
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13. 
Writing and the Writer's Life
A collection of enlightening and entertaining essays and personal narratives on topics such as the craft of fiction, children’s literature, fairy tales, and art
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| Paper | 2008 | $21.95 | Available | Add Paper for "The Left-Handed Story" to Cart |
14. 
Essays on Identity, Politics, and the Freedom of Poetry
Essays by the distinguished contemporary poet and writer Reginald Shepherd explore among other subjects personal history, the meaning of beauty, and gay poets
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| Paper | 2008 | $21.95 | Available | Add Paper for "Orpheus in the Bronx" to Cart |
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Essays on Identity, Politics, and the Freedom of Poetry
Essays by the distinguished contemporary poet and writer Reginald Shepherd explore among other subjects personal history, the meaning of beauty, and gay poets
| Format | Publication year | Price | Status | Purchasing option |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Paper | 2008 | $21.95 | Available | Add Paper for "Orpheus in the Bronx" to Cart |
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Essays on Identity, Politics, and the Freedom of Poetry
Essays by the distinguished contemporary poet and writer Reginald Shepherd explore among other subjects personal history, the meaning of beauty, and gay poets
| Format | Publication year | Price | Status | Purchasing option |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Paper | 2008 | $21.95 | Available | Add Paper for "Orpheus in the Bronx" to Cart |
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15. 
Lectures, Interviews, and Outtakes
Collects the commentary of the later years and last days of one of America's most powerful and unique poets
| Format | Publication year | Price | Status | Purchasing option |
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| Paper | 2007 | $21.95 | Available | Add Paper for "Ed Dorn Live" to Cart |
16. 
Essays on Poetry and Influence
A collection of essays, written over twenty years, trace the author's literary temperament
| Format | Publication year | Price | Status | Purchasing option |
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| Paper | 2007 | $22.95 | Available | Add Paper for "Make Us Wave Back" to Cart |
17. 
Fifty years of writing on literature, film, and art by one of the most influential poets and critics of our time
| Format | Publication year | Price | Status | Purchasing option |
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| Paper | 2005 | $23.95 | Available | Add Paper for "Selected Prose" to Cart |
| Hardcover | 2004 | $49.95 | Available | Add Hardcover for "Selected Prose" to Cart |
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Fifty years of writing on literature, film, and art by one of the most influential poets and critics of our time
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| Paper | 2005 | $23.95 | Available | Add Paper for "Selected Prose" to Cart |
| Hardcover | 2004 | $49.95 | Available | Add Hardcover for "Selected Prose" to Cart |
18. 
Change What You See
Essays by leading critics, poets, and scholars that explore the work of recent U.S. poet laureate and Pulitzer prize winner Louise Glück
| Format | Publication year | Price | Status | Purchasing option |
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| Paper | 2005 | $24.95 | Available | Add Paper for "On Louise Gluck" to Cart |
19. 
Essays on Poetry
A collection of critical pieces by acclaimed poet Alice Notley, author of Mysteries of Small Houses and Disobedience
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| Paper | 2005 | $21.95 | Available | Add Paper for "Coming After" to Cart |
| Ebook | 2010 | Available | View Purchasing Options for Ebook, "Coming After" |
19.
Essays on Poetry
A collection of critical pieces by acclaimed poet Alice Notley, author of Mysteries of Small Houses and Disobedience
| Format | Publication year | Price | Status | Purchasing option |
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| Paper | 2005 | $21.95 | Available | Add Paper for "Coming After" to Cart |
| Ebook | 2010 | Available | View Purchasing Options for Ebook, "Coming After" |
20. 
| Format | Publication year | Price | Status | Purchasing option |
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| Paper | 2004 | $24.95 | Available | Add Paper for "Poetry and What is Real" to Cart |
21. 
Essays on Poetry New and Selected
A master of American letters collects forty years of writings on poetry in one essential volume
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| Paper | 2004 | $19.95 | Available | Add Paper for "Breakfast Served Any Time All Day" to Cart |
22. 
Meditations on the Writing Life
A gathering of poems, articles, aphorisms, writing exercises, and interviews from this prolific and venerable author
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| Paper | 2003 | $19.95 | Available | Add Paper for "The Answers Are Inside the Mountains" to Cart |
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22.
Meditations on the Writing Life
A gathering of poems, articles, aphorisms, writing exercises, and interviews from this prolific and venerable author
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| Paper | 2003 | $19.95 | Available | Add Paper for "The Answers Are Inside the Mountains" to Cart |
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23. 
An American Looks at Contemporary British Poetry
The latest offering in the Poets on Poetry series from the acclaimed poet, critic, and current chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts
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| Paper | 2003 | $20.95 | Available | Add Paper for "Barrier of a Common Language" to Cart |
24. 
From one of America's foremost contemporary poets, a scintillating, surprising collection of essays on everything from poetry and art to the fine art of sausage-making
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| Paper | 2003 | $19.95 | Available | Add Paper for "The Metaphysician in the Dark" to Cart |
25. 
Poetry and Identity
Essays and interviews on the relationship of color and the literary canon
| Format | Publication year | Price | Status | Purchasing option |
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| Paper | 2002 | $20.95 | Available | Add Paper for "Song for Uncle Tom, Tonto, and Mr. Moto" to Cart |
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