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Retrospectives of Writers from the Seattle Review
Herausgeber: McElroy, Colleen J

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Produktbeschreibung

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

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Washington Press
• Seitenzahl: 448
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Januar 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 135mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 599g
• ISBN-13: 9780295985183
• ISBN-10: 0295985186
• Artikelnr.: 21485720

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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 / William Stafford
Two Drafts of a Poem: "Two of a Kind" Sharon Olds
An Aesthetics of Beauty and the Somatic Poems of Sharon Olds: When Flesh Becomes Word / Linden Ontjes
Looking Back at Some Revisions / Sharon Olds Rick Bass
Fitting in the West: A Conversation with Rick Bass / Douglas Heckman Penetrations (fiction) / Rick Bass N. Scott Momaday
An Interview / Kathleen Wiegner
N. Scott Momaday: Fiction, poetry, and essays / N. Scott Momaday Bibliography of Major Works