The poets are James Harms, David Citino, Martha Collins, Linda Gregerson, Richard Tillinghast, Orlando Ricardo Menes, Mark Strand, Karen Volkman, Lisa Samuels, Marvin Bell, Michael Dennis Browne, David Allan Evans, David Romtvedt, Sandra Alcosser, Robert Wrigley, Nance Van Winckel, Christopher Howell, Mark Halperin, Jana Harris, Sam Hamill, Barbara Drake, Floyd Skloot, Ralph Angel, Carol Muske-Dukes, David St. John, Sharon Bryan, Donald Revell, Claudia Keelan, Alberto Rios, Richard Shelton, Jane Miller, William Wenthe, Naomi Shihab Nye, Peter Cooley, Miller Williams, Beth Ann Fennelly, Natasha Trethewey, Denise Duhamel, Campbell McGrath, Terrance Hayes, Alan Shapiro, Nikki Giovanni, Charles Wright, Rita Dove, Henry Taylor, Dave Smith, Nicole Cooley, David Lehman, Lucie Brock-Broido, Michael S. Harper, C. D. Wright, Mark Wunderlich, James Cummins, Frederick Smock, Mark Jarman, Carl Phillips, Scott Cairns, Elizabeth Dodd, Jonathan Holden, Bin Ramke, Kenneth Brewer, and Paisley Rekdal.
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Out to see America and satisfy his travel bug, W. T. Pfefferle resigned from his position as director of the writing program at Johns Hopkins University and hit the road to interview sixty-two poets about the significance of place in their work. The lively conversations that resulted may surprise with the potential meanings of a seemingly simple concept. This gathering of voices and ideas is illustrated with photo and word portraits from the road and represented with suitable poems.
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Pfefferle journeys deep into the American heartland to ...record the . . . songs of and photograph poets in their habitat. -- David Citino, poet laureate of Ohio State University
These interviews . . . exhibit the profound richness and dazzling diversity of American poetry and its poets. -- David St. John
These interviews . . . exhibit the profound richness and dazzling diversity of American poetry and its poets. -- David St. John
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The age old question of the importance of Place in writing,
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Finally, an anthology about the significance and importance of place and landscape in poetry as experienced by sixty-two poets from throughout the U.S. The author, former director of the writing program at Johns Hopkins University, and his wife spent the better part of a year traveling and interviewing poets from Rhode Island to Washington State, from Minnesota to Texas, and virtually every state in-between. They met with such award-winning poets as Sam Hamill, Naomi Shihab Nye, Charles Wright, and Rita Dove. The question was always "What part does place play in your writings?" The answers were as diverse as the poets and yet remarkably similar in one respect: Place does plan an important role in writing and is much more than simply geography. Together with suitable poems, photo's ,and word portraits, this is a must read for any reader interested in the craft of writing.
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A Fascinating Book,
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This review is from: Poets On Place (Paperback)
I don't usually write reviews, but I was so taken by W.T. Pfefferle's Poets on Place that I felt compelled to praise it here. It provides a portrait of American poetry at the beginning of the 21st century that should be interesting and useful to both poets and scholars alike, and also a fascinating and beautifully understated story of a quest to find something of life beyond the ordinary, something beyond the cliches and stereotypes we often use to define ourselves. Much of the beauty of the book is due to Pfefferle's skill as a writer, and his own deep understanding of poetry makes the interviews read like intelligent conversations between equals. A great book.
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Places of the Heart: Poets on Place,
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A friend put this book in my hands as I worked on preparing a talk on the influence of place in my own poetry. I found "Poets on Place" so invaluable that I typed many pages of detailed notes to ruminate on.
It's an attractive work replete with compementary elements to the main dish of the interviews. Here we have an on-going mystery story: what will Pfefferle and his wife Beth make of thier lives after life on the road? What is life on the road like? There's enough of this to give spice to a full meal of photos, impressionistic portraits of the poets and their surroundings to give a context to the interviews, and the wonderful poems to show the fruits of place and the source of the discussion. The foreword by David St. John is a treasure of wisdom;I draw many insights from it. --Janet Grace Riehl, author Sightlines: A Poet's Diary
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