Rachel Hadas is a poet, essayist, and translator. She is the author of more than twenty books including Poems for Camilla, Questions in the Vestibule, and the memoir Strange Relation, and she is a frequent reviewer and columnist for the Times Literary Supplement. Hadas is Board of Governors Professor of English at Rutgers University-Newark. She lives in New York City.
CONTENTS:
Part I: Reading, Writing, Love
Reading, Writing, Love
Humble Herb is Rival to Prozac
Mater Sagax
Classics
Talking to My Father
Lessons of Poetry
Waiting with Kipling
A Letter to J. D. Salinger
The Honors Student, The Plagiarist, and the Fan
Use a Brand-New Word Three Times
Three Experiences with Stevens
On "Prologues to What Is Possible"
Philotimo in the Beauty Parlor
On Translation: A Classroom in Corfu
Don't Get Hysterical, Get Historical-and Mythical
The Trembling Web and the Storage Facility
Poetic Knowledge
One April Day
Fabric in Ghana
White Polka Dots
Through the Smoke of This One
Vanishing in Plain Sight
Three Steps Down
This Is What I Was Meant To Do
Part II: Remembering the Future
An Interview with Rachel Hadas by Jessica Greenbaum
Part III: In and Out of Books
Everyday Loss
Subterranean Forces
Accepting the Disaster
Art as Target, Art as Grid
Into Daylight and Another Reason
What Good Will This Knowledge Do You? Four Poets on Illness
Beyond Forgetting
Time's Technique
Takes on Arcadia
Preface to Nakedness is My End
The Tenth Muse
The Truth of Two
Voices of Elders
So Where Are We?
An Ecstasy of Space
The Empty Theater
