Selected Essays and Reviews

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Copper Canyon Press, 1996 - Biography & Autobiography - 363 pages
Essays written over the course of nearly fifty years by one of the most independent and insightful reviewers of American poetry. The author insists that poetry must be textured into daily life for the sake of both. "The essays celebrate craft, ardor, and that resilient material, the word", says Adrienne Rich, herself a poet.

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Dr Williamss Paterson
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Stevens as Essayist
6
Write Little Do It Well
9
Copyright

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About the author (1996)

Hayden Carruth is the author of twenty-five books of poetry, a novel, four books of criticism, and two anthologies, and has held fellowships from the Bollingen, Guggenheim and Lannan foundations, as well as the NEA. His many awards include the National Book Award for Poetry, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the Lenore Marshall/The Nation Award.

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