Planet on the Table: Poets on the Reading Life

Bryan, Sharon & William Olsen (editors)

ISBN 10: 1889330914 / ISBN 13: 9781889330914

Published by Sarabande Books, Louisville, 2003

About this Item

8vo, 361 pp., One corner slightly bumped, affecting the first few pages only; else fine.

Seller Inventory # 103222

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Planet on the Table: Poets on the Reading Life
• Publisher: Sarabande Books, Louisville
• Publication Date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1889330914
• ISBN 13: 9781889330914
• Binding: softcover
• Edition: 1st.
• Condition: Nearly fine copy
• Seller catalogs:
  • Poetry

About this title

Synopsis

"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!

About the Author

Sharon Bryan, coeditor of Planet on the Table: Poets on the Reading Life (Sarabande Books, 2003), is also the author of Flying Blind, her third collection of poems which appeared from Sarabande Books in 1996. The first two collections, Salt Air and Objects of Affection, were published by Wesleyan University Press. She is also the editor of Where We Stand: Women Poets on Literary Tradition (Norton, 1993). Her awards include an Academy of American Poets prize, the Discovery Award from The Nation, and two fellowships in poetry from the National Endowment for the Arts. She was poet-in-residence at The Frost Place in 1993. She teaches as a visiting writer, most recently at Missouri State University in St. Louis.

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.