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What Is Poetry: Conversations With the American Avant-Garde
What Is Poetry Conversations With the American Avant-Garde Author:Daniel Kane Over a four-year period, Daniel Kane interviewed many of Americas most interesting and daring contemporary poets about their work. What Is Poetry features twelve of the liveliest of these dialogues, accompanied by an in-depth introduction to the American "avant-garde tradition," a series of personable biographies, and an extensive bibliogr... more »aphy of primary and secondary sources. The results are nothing short of a revelation: the interviews offer poets, readers, and writing teachers a backstage pass to experimental poetry, and Kanes introductory essay provides a unique approach to an art that is at once playful and provocative. Rae Armantrout John Ashbery Robert Creeley Fanny Howe Lisa Jarnot Kenneth Koch Ann Lauterbach Bernadette Mayer Harryette Mullen Michael Palmer Lewis Warsh Marjorie Welish« less