Poets on Poetry Series

Walking Down the Stairs: Selections from Interviews

4.12 · 26 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 1978 · 1 edition

These essays and interviews from 1970-76 are livel…

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Open Between Us

by David Ignatow

4.00 · 4 Ratings · published 1980 · 1 edition

Interviews commenting on Ignatow's life and poetry…

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by Galway Kinnell

4.22 · 36 Ratings · 4 Reviews · published 1978 · 1 edition

Collects Kinnell's thoughts about poetry

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The New Poetries and Some Old

by Richard Kostelanetz

0.00 · published 1991 · 2 editions

This collection of twenty-nine essays represents a…

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To Make a Prairie: Essays on Poets, Poetry, and Country Living

by Maxine Kumin

4.35 · 23 Ratings · 3 Reviews · published 1980 · 2 editions

Kumin reflects on the process of writing poetry an…

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A Company of Poets

by Louis Simpson

3.33 · 3 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 1981 · 1 edition

This is a collection of essays, reviews, and inter…

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Writing the Australian Crawl: Views on the Writer's Vocation

Living Off the Country: Essays on Poetry and Place

4.29 · 244 Ratings · 31 Reviews · published 1978 · 3 editions

Stafford's advice to beginning poets has become a …

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Toward a New Poetry

by Diane Wakoski

4.67 · 9 Ratings · published 1979 · 1 edition

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by John Meade Haines

4.35 · 31 Ratings · 2 Reviews · published 1982 · 5 editions

When he was a homesteader in Alaska, poet John Hai…

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Old Snow Just Melting: Essays and Interviews

by Marvin Bell

4.60 · 5 Ratings · published 1983 · 1 edition

A bright, crisp, AS NEW softbound copy of the firs…

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A Ballet for the Ear: Interviews, Essays, and Reviews

by John Logan

0.00 · published 1983 · 1 edition

Logan writes of contemporary poets and of his own …

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Don't Ask

by Philip Levine

4.08 · 37 Ratings · 5 Reviews · published 1981 · 3 editions

Interviews with the poet Philip Levine on the subj…

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The Weather for Poetry: Essays, Reviews, and Notes on Poetry, 1977-81

Parti-Colored Blocks for a Quilt

3.67 · 3 Ratings · published 1983 · 4 editions

A collection of essays on the work of contemporary…

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by Marge Piercy

4.08 · 25 Ratings · 2 Reviews · published 1983 · 1 edition

Piercy writes of women and poetry and of woman bec…

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Writing Like a Woman

by Alicia Suskin Ostriker

4.08 · 26 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 1983 · 4 editions

"'If we have the habit of freedom and the courage …

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Collected Prose

by James Wright

4.33 · 15 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 1983 · 1 edition

Wright wrote most of the essays and reviews collec…

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Effluences from the Sacred Caves: More Selected Essays and Reviews

by Hayden Carruth

4.50 · 8 Ratings · 2 Reviews · published 1984 · 2 editions

Hayden Carruth's books of poetry include Scrambled…

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Collected Prose

by Robert Hayden

3.50 · 2 Ratings · 1 Reviews · 1 edition

The collected prose of poet Robert Hayden, edited …

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No Evil Star: Selected Essays, Interviews, and Prose

by Anne Sexton

4.09 · 139 Ratings · 9 Reviews · published 1985 · 5 editions

Collects the best of Anne Sexton's memoirs and pro…

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The Uncertain Certainty: Interviews, Essays, and Notes on Poetry

You Must Revise Your Life

4.39 · 64 Ratings · 3 Reviews · published 1986 · 1 edition

Provides a critical and autobiographical context f…

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A Concert of Tenses: Essays on Poetry

4.32 · 218 Ratings · 18 Reviews · published 1986 · 7 editions

Stafford reflects on the writing process and on th…

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by Tess Gallagher

4.61 · 23 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 1986 · 6 editions

Gallagher writes of contemporary poets and of the …

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Poetry and Ambition: Essays 1982--88

Halflife: Improvisations and Interviews, 1977-87

4.04 · 24 Ratings · 4 Reviews · published 1988 · 2 editions

In Donald Hall's compelling new collection of essa…

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by Charles Wright

4.35 · 37 Ratings · 2 Reviews · published 1988 · 2 editions

"I myself am interested in a kind of structural in…

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Curiosities

by William Matthews

4.57 · 7 Ratings · 2 Reviews · published 1989 · 2 editions

These essays reveal the poet's fascination with th…

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Wonderful Words, Silent Truth: Essays on Poetry and a Memoir

Predecessors, Et Cetera: Essays

4.41 · 41 Ratings · 3 Reviews · published 1990 · 3 editions

Included in this collection of essays is an autobi…

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Poems Are Hard to Read

by William Meredith

4.00 · 3 Ratings · published 1990 · 2 editions

Gathers together a half-century of prose pieces wr…

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by Amy Clampitt

3.67 · 3 Ratings · published 1991 · 3 editions

Predecessors, Et Cetera collects Amy Clampitt’s re…

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Working Time: Essays on Poetry, Culture, and Travel

by Jane Miller

3.50 · 4 Ratings · published 1992 · 2 editions

Working Time collects essays by prize-winning poet…

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The Line Forms Here

by David Lehman

3.00 · 2 Ratings · published 1992 · 2 editions

Relfections on poetry by a critic and poet who is …

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Suicides and Jazzers

by Hayden Carruth

4.14 · 14 Ratings · 2 Reviews · published 1993 · 2 editions

In Suicides and Jazzers, Hayden Carruth reveals as…

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Words to Create a World

by Daniel Hoffman

0.00 · published 1993 · 2 editions

Reflections on poetry, from the birth of modernism…

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Shelf Life

by Thom Gunn

4.14 · 21 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 1993 · 8 editions

Devoted mainly to aspects of American literature, …

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Tales Out of School: Selected Interviews

by Robert Creeley

4.46 · 13 Ratings · 4 Reviews · published 1993 · 2 editions

Since the publication of Robert Creeley’s first bo…

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Ships Going into the Blue: Essays and Notes on Poetry

by Louis Simpson

3.75 · 4 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 1995 · 3 editions

A revealing collection of Louis Simpson's autobiog…

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Eloquence and Mere Life: Essays on the Art of Poetry

by Alan Williamson

3.50 · 2 Ratings · published 1994 · 2 editions

Assesses past and future generations of poets and …

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The Unemployed Fortune-Teller: Essays and Memoirs

Death to the Death of Poetry: Essays, Reviews, Notes, Interviews

4.33 · 107 Ratings · 8 Reviews · published 1995 · 4 editions

Provides glimpses into the origins of Charles Simi…

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Robert Lowell's Life and Work: Damaged Grandeur

4.38 · 8 Ratings · 2 Reviews · published 1995 · 4 editions

A spirited defense of the vitality of contemporary…

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Poetry's Old Air

by Marianne Boruch

4.45 · 29 Ratings · 4 Reviews · published 1995 · 4 editions

Marianne Boruch is one of America's finest contemp…

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The Big Question

by David Lehman

3.80 · 5 Ratings · published 1995 · 3 editions

David Lehman's second book in the Poets on Poetry …

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by Richard W. Tillinghast

4.00 · 1 Ratings · published 1995 · 3 editions

Robert Lowell was regarded by many as the greatest…

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Quarter Notes: Improvisations and Interviews

by Charles Wright

4.39 · 28 Ratings · published 1996 · 2 editions

Quarter Notes harvests recent reviews, essays, mem…

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Trying to Say It: Outlooks and Insights on How Poems Happen

by Philip Booth

4.25 · 4 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 1996 · 2 editions

As one of Robert Frost's last students, Philip Boo…

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The Spiral of Memory: Interviews

by Joy Harjo

4.43 · 35 Ratings · published 1996 · 3 editions

With the recently-published The Woman Who Fell fro…

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Written in Water, Written in Stone: Twenty Years of Poets on Poetry

by Martin Lammon

3.84 · 19 Ratings · 2 Reviews · published 1997 · 2 editions

For twenty years, the Poets on Poetry series, unde…

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AMERIFIL.TXT: A Commonplace Book

by Douglas Crase

5.00 · 6 Ratings · published 1997 · 5 editions

From its title forward, AMERIFIL.TXT is an unusual…

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A World That Will Hold All the People

by Suzanne Gardinier

4.75 · 4 Ratings · published 1996 · 2 editions

In this thoughtful and provocative collection of e…

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Set in Motion: Essays, Interviews, and Dialogues

by A.R. Ammons

4.17 · 23 Ratings · 2 Reviews · published 1997 · 4 editions

Set in Motion collects for the first time the pros…

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The Art of Poetry

by Kenneth Koch

3.93 · 30 Ratings · 3 Reviews · published 1996 · 2 editions

A charter member of the legendary New York School …

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Guns and Boyhood in America: A Memoir of Growing Up in the 50s

by Jonathan Holden

3.75 · 4 Ratings · published 1997 · 2 editions

In this honest and compelling collection of autobi…

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Women and Poetry: Truth, Autobiography, and the Shape of the Self

by Carol Muske-Dukes

3.83 · 6 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 1997 · 2 editions

The sense of self in poetry written by women is hi…

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The Long Schoolroom: Lessons in the Bitter Logic of the Poetic Principle

by Allen R. Grossman

4.33 · 12 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 1997 · 2 editions

Allen Grossman's combined reputation as a poet and…

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Orphan Factory: Essays and Memoirs

Crossing Unmarked Snow: Further Views on the Writer's Vocation

4.33 · 73 Ratings · 5 Reviews · published 1997 · 4 editions

Orphan Factory collects writing by Charles Simic, …

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Between the Iceberg and the Ship: Selected Essays

4.24 · 85 Ratings · 5 Reviews · published 1998 · 5 editions

"It is this impulse to change the quality of exper…

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Made with Words

by May Swenson

3.75 · 4 Ratings · published 1998 · 2 editions

Made With Words collects prose by May Swenson (191…

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Poetry and Consciousness

by C.K. Williams

3.84 · 25 Ratings · 2 Reviews · published 1998 · 3 editions

Poetry and Consciousness brings together C. K. Wil…

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All the Rage

by William Logan

3.00 · 1 Ratings · published 1998 · 3 editions

William Logan has been called the most dangerous p…

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by Anne Stevenson

2.50 · 2 Ratings · published 1998 · 3 editions

Never affiliated with any group or school, Anne St…

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Bardic Deadlines: Reviewing Poetry, 1984-95

by Geoffrey Paul O'Brien

0.00 · published 1999 · 2 editions

In Bardic Deadlines , writer and editor Geoffrey O…

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The Poetry of Everyday Life

by John Hollander

0.00 · published 1998 · 3 editions

Poet, scholar, teacher, editor, and critic John Ho…

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The Occasions of Poetry: Essays in Criticism and Autobiography

by Thom Gunn

4.50 · 16 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 1982 · 9 editions

EXPANDED EDITION. FIFTEEN ESSAYS. The author was b…

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The Route as Briefed

by James Vincent Tate

3.83 · 30 Ratings · 4 Reviews · published 1999 · 6 editions

The Route as Briefed collects prose by Pulitzer Pr…

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Responsive Reading

by Edward Hirsch

4.00 · 1 Ratings · published 1999 · 2 editions

This collection brims with wide-ranging encounters…

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Required Writing: Miscellaneous Pieces 1955-1982

by Philip Larkin

4.12 · 129 Ratings · 11 Reviews · published 1983 · 17 editions

The reappearance of Philip Larkin's Required Writi…

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ذبابة في الحساء

Dancing at the Devil's Party: Essays on Poetry, Politics, and the Erotic

3.91 · 635 Ratings · 153 Reviews · published 2003 · 10 editions

علمتني حياتي أن التخطيط للمستقبل مضيعة للوقت، اعتا…

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Poetry at One Remove

by John Koethe

3.00 · 1 Ratings · published 2000 · 3 editions

Poetry at One Remove collects the essays of contem…

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by Alicia Suskin Ostriker

4.31 · 16 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 2000 · 3 editions

This volume of essays celebrates poetry that aims …

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Blue Notes: Essays, Interviews, and Commentaries

by Yusef Komunyakaa

4.47 · 30 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 2000 · 2 editions

Blue Notes offers an assortment of poet Yusef Komu…

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Merrill, Cavafy, Poems, and Dreams

by Rachel Hadas

3.75 · 4 Ratings · published 2000 · 4 editions

Merrill, Cavafy, Poems and Dreams is a collection …

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The Straight Line: Writing on Poetry and Poets

by Ron Padgett

4.14 · 7 Ratings · published 2000 · 2 editions

The Straight Line brings together memoir, informal…

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The Gazer Within

by Larry Levis

4.41 · 101 Ratings · 5 Reviews · published 2001 · 3 editions

The Gazer Within collects the prose of one of Amer…

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The Poetry Blues: Essays and Interviews

by William Matthews

4.12 · 17 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 2001 · 3 editions

In the Poetry Blues, the late William Matthews hol…

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Negative Capability: Contemporary American Poetry

by Linda Gregerson

4.33 · 12 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 2001 · 2 editions

In a wide-ranging and fiercely intelligent series …

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The Bread of Time: Toward an Autobiography

by Philip Levine

4.32 · 80 Ratings · 15 Reviews · published 1994 · 9 editions

The Bread of Time is an amalgam of celebration and…

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The Instant of Knowing: Lectures, Criticism, and Occasional Prose

by Josephine Jacobsen

4.00 · 2 Ratings · 2 Reviews · published 1997 · 4 editions

Josephine Jacobsen, born in 1908, had her first po…

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Body and Soul: Essays on Poetry

by Mark Jarman

3.62 · 8 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 2002 · 3 editions

Mark Jarman, author of the narrative poem Iris and…

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A Boundless Field: American Poetry at Large

by Stephen Yenser

5.00 · 2 Ratings · published 2002 · 2 editions

This collection of essays by esteemed poet and sch…

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The Castle of Perseverance: Job Opportunities in Contemporary Poetry

by Thomas M. Disch

3.85 · 13 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 2002 · 3 editions

This collection by poet and novelist Thomas M. Dis…

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So Ask: Essays, Conversations, and Interviews

by Philip Levine

4.29 · 28 Ratings · 3 Reviews · published 2002 · 4 editions

An engaging and intimate collection by an American…

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Song for Uncle Tom, Tonto, and Mr. Moto: Poetry and Identity

by David Alan Mura

4.00 · 5 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 2002 · 2 editions

As a Sansei or third-generation Japanese American …

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Soul Barnacles: Ten More Years with Ray

by Tess Gallagher

4.00 · 10 Ratings · published 1999 · 7 editions

This bittersweet collection of diary entries, memo…

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Essay on Rime: with Trial of a Poet

by Karl Shapiro

4.11 · 9 Ratings · 3 Reviews · published 2003 · 8 editions

This book restores to print two important verse-es…

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The Metaphysician in the Dark

Barrier of a Common Language: An American Looks at Contemporary British Poetry

4.00 · 46 Ratings · 2 Reviews · published 2003 · 5 editions

Charles Simic's quicksilver imagination, his maste…

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by Dana Gioia

4.00 · 8 Ratings · published 2003 · 4 editions

The latest offering in the Poets on Poetry series …

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The Answers Are Inside the Mountains: Meditations on the Writing Life

Further Requirements: Interviews, Broadcasts, Statements and Book Reviews, 1952-85

4.55 · 49 Ratings · 7 Reviews · published 2003 · 6 editions

A volume in the Poets on Poetry series, which coll…

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by Philip Larkin

3.76 · 38 Ratings · 3 Reviews · published 2001 · 7 editions

Further Requirements gathers interviews, broadcast…

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Fables of Representation: Essays

by Paul Hoover

4.71 · 7 Ratings · published 2004 · 4 editions

From the acclaimed author of Winter (Mirror) and R…

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Poetry and What is Real

by Richard W. Tillinghast

4.50 · 2 Ratings · published 2004 · 3 editions

Poetry and What Is Real presents celebrated poet R…

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Coming After: Essays on Poetry

by Alice Notley

4.43 · 93 Ratings · 7 Reviews · published 2005 · 3 editions

Coming After gathers critical pieces by acclaimed …

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Selected Prose

by John Ashbery

4.16 · 51 Ratings · 7 Reviews · published 2004 · 6 editions

"By the end of the book, Ashbery has laid out not …

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