Ecstatic Occasions, Expedient Forms: 85 Leading Contemporary Poets Select and Comment on Their Poems

ISBN 10: 0472096338 / ISBN 13: 9780472096336

Published by Univ of Michigan Pr, 2018

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Ecstatic Occasions, Expedient Forms: 85 Leading Contemporary Poets Select and Comment on Their Poems
• Publisher: Univ of Michigan Pr
• Publication Date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0472096338
• ISBN 13: 9780472096336
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: good

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Synopsis

This unique anthology focuses on the notion of form in contemporary poetry. Contemporary poets have each selected one poem, commenting on the occasion of its creation and on the form the poem eventually took. The range of contributors is wide, and includes John Ashbery, John Cage, Rita Dove, Alice Fulton, Marilyn Hacker, Yusef Komunyakaa, James Merrill, Thylias Moss, Robert Pinsky, Charles Simic, and Richard Wilbur. Among the new contributions is Wyn Cooper's poem Fun, which was the basis for Sheryl Crow's Grammy-award winning song All I Wanna Do.

From the Back Cover

This unique anthology brings together 85 contemporary poets to conduct a lively, instructive forum on the question of form in poetry. Editor David Lehman asked each poet to select a poem and describe the method of its composition, the circumstances of the writing, and the formal decisions that were made. Pairing poem with prose, the book manages to define, exemplify, and explain the range of formal possibilities available to the contemporary poet, through its broad formal variety and intimate style of commentary.