Poets Reading: The FIELD Symposia [Paperback]

Almost every year since 1979, FIELD magazine has celebrated the work of a major modern poet in a unique symposium: a number of current poets are invited to choose favorite poems by the featured poet and explore them in short essays. The results have become one of the most popular features of the magazine: passionate, insightful and often provocative, the FIELD symposia reassert poetry as a living art, charged with immediacy and excitement.

Preface EMILY DICKINSON (1830-1886) Nancy Willard: Questioning the Pilgrim Charles Simic: Ambiguitys Wedding David Walker: Stinging Work Stanley Plumly: Doors Ajar Martha Collins: The Outer from the Inner David Young: Electric Moccasins GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS (1844-1889) Charles Wright: Improvisations: With Father Hopkins on Lake Como Gerald Stern: Some Thoughts David Young: Surprised by Grief Lee Upton: Disremembering, Dismembering Dennis Schmitz: On Carrion Comfort Stanley Plumply: Hear What I Do Marianne Boruch: Becoming Epithalamion WALLACE STEVENS (1879-1955) Dennis Schmitz: On Peter Quince at the Clavier Philip Booth: On Domination of Black Alberta Turner: Astonished Laura Jensen: Why I like The Snow Man Maxine Kumin: On A Postcard from the Volcano David Young: Gaiety of Language Shirley Kaufman: On A Rabbit as King of the Ghosts William Stafford: On Poetry Is a Destructive Force Albert Goldbarth: On The Glass of Water Stanley Plumly:  The Class of Water: A Footnote Pamela Stewart: On Stevens Yellow Afternoon Marvin Bell: On Arrival at the Waldorf David Walker: On Puella Parvula WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS (1883-1963) Donald Justice: On Purity of Style Marvin Bell: Williams and Dedication... Marcia Southwick: On Dedication for a Plot of Ground Donald Hall: William Carlos Williams and the Visual David Walker: On The Polar Bear Miroslav Holub: W.C. Williams on Death Charles Simic: Streets Strewn with Garbag