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"Twenty-eight distinguished contemporary American poets provide a multi-faceted view of the creative process. Each poet has contributed a poem and chosen several poems by other poets that have influenced it. In an essay, each poet then describes how those influences have led to a sense of poetic mastery."
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This collection of poems and essays offers an introduction to what is happening in American poetry today, and to how and what those who write poems think about it. It contains one poem each by 31 contributors, followed by an essay by the poet explaining the poem. These poems by living American poets exemplify strong, new styles -- some leaning on structures of prose fiction, some using traditional prosodic forms, some wandering between prose and poetry...
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In these original essays, leading writers reflect on the influences that have shaped their work. For some, other authors have mattered most: Reynolds Price points to Hemingway, Edward Hoagland to Steinbeck and Bellow, and Cynthia Ozick to Henry James. More often nonliterary factors have marked these writers' fiction, poetry or essays. Family responsibilities dictated the form of storywriter Raymond Carver's work; whereas the brutality of life in El...