Planet On The Table: Poets on the Reading Life
Language: English
Published by Sarabande Books, Incorporated, 2003
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Essential reading for the student of creative writing, and all writers.
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- Title
- Planet On The Table: Poets on the Reading Life
- Author
- Sharon Bryan
- Publisher
- Sarabande Books, Incorporated
- Publication year
- 2003
- Condition
- Good
- Binding
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1889330914
- ISBN 13
- 9781889330914
"The tone may vary from one essay to another, but more than anything else, these are love stories, not rose-colored romances, but love that includes doubt, violence, wrestling with angels, and devils."—From the Introduction
CONTRIBUTORS:
Eavan Boland
Madeline DeFrees
Stephen Dunn
Reginald Gibbons
Edward Hirsch
Maxine Kumin
J.D. McClatchy
Carl Phillips
Stanley Plumly
Mary Ruefle
Adam Zagajewski
and many others!
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About the Author
William Olsen is the author of two collections of poetry, The Hand of God and a Few Bright Flowers (Illinois, 1988) and Vision of a Storm Cloud (TriQuarterly, 1996). A third volume, Trouble Lights, will be brought out by TriQuarterly in November, 2001. Olsen is the recipient of a NEA Creative Writing Fellowship, The Nation/Discovery Award, a Texas Institute of Arts Award, a Bread Loaf Fellowship, and poetry awards from Poetry Northwest and Crazyhorse. His poems and essays have appeared in The New Republic, Chicago Review, The Paris Review, The Southern Review, New American Poets of the Nineties, The New Bread Loaf Anthology of Contemporary American Poetry, Poets of the New Century (Godine, November 2001), and many other magazines and anthologies. He teaches at Western Michigan University and in the MFA Program at Vermont College.
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