Selected essays and reviews
by Hayden Carruth · 1996
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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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