Interviews with some of the country's top literary figures, including Charles Baxter, Charles Simic, Donald Revell, Gerald Stern, Sandra Gilbert, Catherine Bowman, Campbell McGrath, and a previously unpublished interview with Russell Banks, are anthologized for the first time in this compelling collection.
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"As Samuel Johnson observed," writes Henry Hughes in his introduction to Delicious Imaginations, "questioning is not the most polite mode of conversation. But hot answers make it worth the risk." Graduate students, typically interested neither in the cult of celebrity nor in the posturing of success, seem uniquely qualified to get hot answers from their subjects. These 15 "conversations"--between grad students and such contemporary writers as Gerald Stern, Catherine Bowman, Rick Bass, and Russell Banks--were culled from the first 10 years of Purdue University's Sycamore Review. All kinds of fascinating literary byways are explored here, but perhaps the hottest answers involve the role of M.F.A. programs, and academia in general, in the lives of contemporary writers. Michael Martone laments the fact that writing programs do not address "the consequences of their existence." Larry Brown claims that "the only thing an M.F.A. will give you is the ability to go out and teach creative writing." Denise Levertov calls M.F.A. programs "disastrous. They've taken people far from the concept of poetry as a vocation and turned it so much into poetry as a career." And Charles Simic advises young poets to "keep away from the Academy as much as you can." --Jane Steinberg
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