The Poet's work: 29 masters of 20th century poetry on the origins and practice of their art

Czeslas Milosz Ars Poetica? Fernando Pessoa Toward Explanining Heteronymy / Osip Mandelstam The Word & Culture / Boris Pasternak Some Statements / Federico Garcia Lorca The Duende: Theory and Divertissement / Luis Cernuda Words Before a Reading / Wallace Stevens The Irrational Element in Poetry / Rene Char from The Formal Share / Eugenio Montale from Intentions (Imaginary Interview) / George Seferis from A Poet's Journal / Delmore Schwartz The Vocation of the Poet in the Modern World / Karl Sharpiro What is not Poetry? / A. D. Hope The Three Faces of Love / Hugh MacDiarmid Poetry and Science / Gunter Kunert Why Write / Wendell Berry The Specialization of Poetry / Marianne Moore Poetry / Paul Valery A Poet's Notebook / Hart Crane General Aims and Theories / Dylan Thomas Poetic Manifesto / William Carlos Williams Projective Verse and the Practice / Louise Bogan The Pleasures of Formal Poetry / Marianne Moore Idiosyncrasy and Technique / Randall Jarrell The Woman at the Washington Zoo / W. H. Auden Writing / Denise Levertov Some Notes on Organic Form / Robert Duncan Notes on Poetic Form / Seamus Heaney Feelings into Words / Gary Snyder The Real Work (Excerpts from an Interview).