Wild and Whirling Words: A Poetic Conversation Moderated by H.L. Hix
What would poets say about each other's poems
if they were really honest? The answer is in Wild and Whirling
Words. Thirty-three of America's best and most important poets,
diverse in gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation, geography, political
disposition, and aesthetic commitments, took the challenge. Each
volunteered one of her or his own poems, which the moderator then
circulated anonymously among the other poets, who responded anonymously.
The results tell a story about how poets read poems and how they
write poems, about what poetry is, and about the state of contemporary
poetry in America.
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H. L. Hix teaches in and directs the creative writing MFA at the University of Wyoming. In addition to his books from Etruscan—a poetry collection, Shadows of Houses, a collection of essays on poetry entitled As Easy As Lying, and an anthology, Wild and Whirling Words—he has published a number of other books of poetry, poetry in translation, and criticism. His poetry has been recognized with the Grolier Prize, the T. S. Eliot Prize, the Peregrine Smith Award, and a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. paperback/192 pp/ISBN: 0-9745995-0-6/$22.95 |
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