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The five interviews in this book were conducted by students in“The Art of Poetry,” a course that Harry Thomas taught for severalyears. The students’ depth of knowledge and keenness of insightinto the poets’ work is an affirmation of American education. Thepoets respond to the students with a frankness and feeling offraternity that mounts at times to a sort of communion.

<p>The five interviews in this book were conducted by students in
“The Art of Poetry,” a course that Harry Thomas taught for several
years. The students’ depth of knowledge and keenness of insight
into the poets’ work is an affirmation of American education. The
poets respond to the students with a frankness and feeling of
fraternity that mounts at times to a sort of communion.<br />
<br />
The poets take up a great range of matters in the interviews the
nature of artistic creation, the varieties and difficulties of
poetic translation, poetry and politics, religion, popular culture,
the contemporary readership for poetry, and the experience of
living as a poet in a country not your own. They speak with
familiarity and enthusiasm of a number of writers, including Eliot,
Joyce, Rilke, Brodsky, Pound, Ovid, Dante, Ralegh, Wordsworth,
Keats, Mandelstam, and Wilde. One of the delights of reading these
interviews is to observe the poets responding to the same matter
for instance, Seamus Heaney speaking of Robert Pinsky’s translation
of Czeslaw Milosz’s great poem, “The World,” and Robert Pinsky
speaking at length of Seamus Heaney’s essay, in The Government of
the Tongue, on Pinsky’s translation. This is an intimate look into
the minds of five of our most celebrated contemporary poets and an
invigorating meditation on some of our most human concerns.</p>

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