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Informationen zum Autor Colleen McElroy , editor of The Seattle Review and compiler of this anthology, is the author of twelve books of prose and poetry, including Over the Lip of the World: Among the Storytellers of Madagascar . Brenda Peterson , author of numerous novels, essays, and other works of non-fiction, is an award-winning nature writer. Writers featured: Lynda Barry, Rick Bass, Nelson Bentley, Marilyn Chin, Ivan Doig, Richard Hugo, Carolyn Kizer, Yusef Komunyakaa, Denise Levertov, Larry Levis, N. Scott Momaday, Sharon Olds, Sonia Sanchez, William Stafford, David Wagoner, Diane Wakoski. Klappentext This spirited and delectable collection of sixteen retrospectives from The Seattle Review , a renowned journal featuring literary luminaries of the Northwest, offers a timeless resource for writers, cultural historians, and bibliophiles everywhere. It includes interviews with some of America's greatest writers as well short literary works and an assortment of their personal photographs spanning several decades of their lives. The essays, beguiling photographs, and articulate and intriguing discussions on literary composition offer a rare insight into the lives and art of these exceptional writers. To learn more about the Seattle Review go to http://depts.washington.edu/seaview/index.html Zusammenfassung A collection of sixteen retrospectives which include interviews with some of America's greatest writers as well short literary works and an assortment of their personal photographs spanning several decades of their lives. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface Introduction / Brenda Peterson David Wagoner --Slightly Different Ways of Thinking: An Interview / Kate Gray --Three Poems / David Wagoner Denise Levertov --Autobiographical Sketch (1984) --Conversations and Tea with Denise / Colleen J. McElroy --Feet (poem) / Denise Levertov Sonia Sanchez --A Retrospective Movement and the Writer's Life: An Interview / Lauri Conner --Eleven Poems / Sonia Sanchez Nelson Bentley --A Biographical Sketch / Sean Bentley --After Screening "In a Dark Time" / Sean Bentley --Four Poems / Nelson Bentley Richard Hugo --Introduction / James Welch --Seven Poems / Richard Hugo Larry Levis --Larry Levis in Syracuse / Stephen Dunn --Larry Levis's "Spots of Time" / Gary Short --Letter from Levis/Late September in Ulcinj --Five Poems / Larry Levis Diane Wakoski --Let Us Begin to Sing: A Poet and Her Mountain--Diane Wakoski, 1999 / Edward Jenkinson --Perfume (poem) / Diane Wakoski Carolyn Kizer --Introduction / Jeanine Marie Derusha --Not Their History but Our Myth: An Interview / David Rigsbee and Stephen Ford Brown --Five Poems / Carolyn Kizer Lynda Barry --Will You Climb Up to the Heavens That Enclose Us Above: A Talk with Lynda Barry, 2000 / Edward Jenkinson --I Love My Master I Love My Master (poem) / Lynda Barry Yusef Komunyakaa --An Interview with Yusef Komunyakaa / Sally Dawidoff --Introduction --Hagar's Daughter (poem) --Shangri-La (libretto) / Yusef Komunyakaa Marilyn Chin --Foxtrot with Marilyn: An Interview / Tarisa Matsumoto --Four Poems / Marilyn Chin Ivan Doig --Conversation with Middle-Class Cosmic Mechanic, Ivan Doig / Derek Sheffield --Winter ot '19 (fiction) / Ivan Doig William Stafford --Talking Recklessly: An Interview with the Stafford Family / Derek Sheffield --Holding the Roethke Chair: William Stafford's Prose Journal --Prologue from Early Morning: Remembering My Father / Kim Stafford --Six Poems / Willi...
