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The Poet's Notebook

Excerpts from the Notebooks of 26 American Poets

David Weiss editor Deborah Tall editor Stephen Kuusisto editor

Format:Paperback

Publisher:WW Norton & Co

Published:15th Sep '97

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The Poet's Notebook brings together excerpts from the working notebooks of twenty-six American poets. Unsystematic, spontaneous, irreverent, intense, witty, unexpected, these notebooks shimmer with reflections, speculations, confessions, quotations, impressions, and ruminations. They create a portrait of the artist as a purposeful gatherer and sifter of every kind of experience.

Included are the notebooks from such distinguished and eclectic voices as Rita Dove, Stephen Dunn, Carolyn Forché, Donald Hall, Garrett Hongo, Joy Harjo, Donald Justice, Yusef Komunyakaa, James Merrill, Mary Oliver, Charles Simic, and William Stafford.

"This is the kind of book in which you'll want to underline a lot. There are good stories here, quirky observations on life and literature, jokes, wonderful quotes, and even passages of sensible advice and wisdom that will delight your grumpiest friends." -- Charles Simic, from his preface to The Poet's Notebook

ISBN: 9780393316551

Dimensions: 211mm x 140mm x 20mm

Weight: 412g

322 pages