| Contents |
For my son on the highways of his mind ; Sperm / Maxine Kumin, November 14, 1973 -- Meditation at Lagunitas / Robert Hass, December 14, 1977 -- Dream drumming / Muriel Rukeyser, February 22, 1978 -- You can have it / Philip Levine, March 29, 1978 -- For my mother ; Autumnal ; World breaking apart / Louise Glück, February 28, 1979 -- Poem for South African women / June Jordan, March 21, 1979 -- Mirabell: books of number / James Merrill, May 23, 1979 -- The hang-glider's daughter / Marilyn Hacker, April 15, 1980 -- Little sleep's-head sprouting hair in the moonlight / Galway Kinnell, March 24, 1981 -- XLVIII / Derek Walcott, May 5, 1982 -- Black buttercups / Amy Clampitt, February 22, 1983 -- chemotherapy / Lucille Clifton, May 3, 1983 -- Against starlings / Stanley Plumly, April 29, 1986 -- Medusa / C.K. Williams, March 1, 1988 -- The hunt / Molly Peacock, April 7, 1992 -- The want bone / Robert Pinsky, November 16, 1993 -- Wild gratitude / Edward Hirsch, October 2, 1993 -- Confessional / Frank Bidart, March 1, 1994 -- My father's body / William Matthews, March 29, 1994 -- Cows / Paul Muldoon, March 14, 1995 -- The cleaving / Li-Young Lee, March 29, 1995 -- Official inquiry among the grains of sand / Charles Simic, April 19, 1995 -- Ants / Eamon Grennan, March 15, 1996 -- Postscript: Pearl London / Robert Polito. |
| Abstract |
From Maxine Kumin in 1973 to Eamon Grennan in 1996, including Amy Clampitt, Marilyn Hacker, Paul Muldoon, Nobel laureate Derek Walcott, and U.S. poet laureates Robert Hass, Robert Pinsky, Louise Gluck, and Charles Simic, "Poetry in Person" follows an extraordinary range of poets as they create their poems and offers numerous illustrations of the original drafts, which bring their processes to light. |
