Poets on Poetry

The Old Poetries and the New

1981

A Company of Poets

1981

Don't Ask

1981

Living Off the Country: Essays on Poetry and Place

1982

The Weather for Poetry: Essays, Reviews, and Notes on Poetry, 1977-81

1982

Claims for Poetry

1982

Required Writing: Miscellaneous Pieces 1955-1982

1983

Parti-Colored Blocks for a Quilt

1983

Collected Prose

1983

Writing Like a Woman

1983

Old Snow Just Melting: Essays and Interviews

1983

A Ballet for the Ear: Interviews, Essays, and Reviews

1983

Platonic Scripts

1984

Effluences from the Sacred Caves: More Selected Essays and Reviews

1984

A Local Habitation: Essays on Poetry )

1985

No Evil Star: Selected Essays, Interviews, and Prose

1985

You Must Revise Your Life

1986

A Concert of Tenses: Essays on Poetry

1986

Poetry and Ambition: Essays 1982--88

1988

Reviews and Essays, 1936-55

1988

Halflife: Improvisations and Interviews, 1977-87

1988

Curiosities

1989

Poetry Beat: Reviewing the Eighties

1990

Speaking of Writing: Selected Hopwood Lectures

1990

Wonderful Words, Silent Truth

1990

Conversant Essays: Contemporary Poets on Poetry

1990

Poems Are Hard to Read

1990

Predecessors, Et Cetera: Essays

1991

The Line Forms Here

1992

Suicides and Jazzers

1993

Words to Create a World

1993

Plow Naked

1993

Shelf Life: Essays, Memoirs, and an Interview

1993

Tales Out of School: Selected Interviews

1993

Eloquence and Mere Life: Essays on the Art of Poetry

1994

Richer Entanglements: Essays and Notes on Poetry and Poems

1994

The Unemployed Fortune-Teller

1995

The Judge Is Fury: Dislocation and Form in Poetry

1995

Death to the Death of Poetry

1995

Poetry Now - Poets on Poetry

1995

Poetry's Old Air

1995

The Big Question

1995

Robert Lowell's Life and Work: Damaged Grandeur

1995

Quarter Notes: Improvisations and Interviews

1996

The Art of Poetry

1996

The Spiral of Memory

1996

Trying to Say It: Outlooks and Insights on How Poems Happen

1996

A World That Will Hold All the People

1996

The Instant of Knowing: Lectures, Criticism, and Occasional Prose

1997

A Commonplace Book

1997

Guns and Boyhood in America: A Memoir of Growing Up in the 50s

1997

The Long Schoolroom: Lessons in the Bitter Logic of the Poetic Principle

1997

Women and Poetry: Truth, Autobiography, and the Shape of the Self

1997

The Glass Anvil

1997

Orphan Factory

1997

Five looks at Elizabeth Bishop

1998

Crossing Unmarked Snow: Further Views on the Writer's Vocation

1998

Poetry and Consciousness

1998

An Introduction to Rhyme

1998

Made with Words

1998

All the Rage

1998

An Introduction to Geoffrey Hill

1998

Between the Iceberg and the Ship: Selected Essays

1998

The Poetry of Everyday Life

1998

Soul Barnacles: Ten More Years with Ray

1999

The Route as Briefed

1999

Bardic Deadlines: Reviewing Poetry, 1984-95

1999

Responsive Reading

1999

Blue Notes: Essays, Interviews, and Commentaries

2000

Poetry at One Remove

2000

Dancing at the Devil's Party: Essays on Poetry, Politics, and the Erotic

2000

Merrill, Cavafy, Poems, and Dreams

2000

The Straight Line: Writing on Poetry and Poets

2000

The Gazer Within

2001

The Poetry Blues: Essays and Interviews

2001

Further Requirements: Interviews, Broadcasts, Statements and Book Reviews, 1952-85

2001

Negative Capability: Contemporary American Poetry

2001

Body and Soul: Essays on Poetry

2002

A Boundless Field: American Poetry at Large

2002

The Castle of Perseverance

2002

So Ask: Essays, Conversations, and Interviews

2002

Song for Uncle Tom, Tonto, and Mr. Moto: Poetry and Identity

2002

A Fly in the Soup: Memoirs

2003

The Metaphysician in the Dark

2003

Barrier of a Common Language: An American Looks at Contemporary British Poetry

2003

The Answers Are Inside the Mountains: Meditations on the Writing Life

2003

Fables of Representation

2004

Selected Prose

2004

Poetry and What is Real

2004

Memory Piano

2006

The Passionate Spectator: Essays on Art and Poetry

2006

The Failure of Poetry, The Promise of Language

2007

Power and Possibility

2007

Ed Dorn Live: Lectures, Interviews, and Outtakes

2007

Atlas: Selected Essays, 1989-2007

2008

Orpheus in the Bronx: Essays on Identity, Politics, and the Freedom of Poetry

2008

On Burning Ground

2009

Set in Motion: Essays, Interviews, and Dialogues

2009

Poetics of Dislocation

2009

The Body of Poetry: Essays on Women, Form, and the Poetic Self

2010

Coming After: Essays on Poetry

2010

A Martian Muse

2010

The Lover of a Subversive Is Also a Subversive

2010

Orange Alert

2010

Unauthorized Voices

2010

Two Minds of a Western Poet

2011

The Game Changed: Essays and Other Prose

2011

Noise That Stays Noise: Essays

2011

Available Surfaces: Essays on Poesis

2012

Windows and Doors: A Poet Reads Literary Theory

2014

Yes, There Will Be Singing

2014

Show Me Your Environment: Essays on Poetry, Poets, and Poems

2014

The Necropastoral

2014

From the Valley of Making: Essays on the Craft of Poetry

2015

Immanent Distance: Poetry and the Metaphysics of the Near at Hand

2015

Resident Alien: On Border-crossing and the Undocumented Divine

2015

The Skin of Meaning: Collected Literary Essays and Talks

2016

How Long Have You Been With Us?: Essays on Poetry

2016

Condition Red: Essays, Interviews, and Commentaries

2017

The Little Death of Self: Nine Essays toward Poetry

2017

The Mirror Diary: Selected Essays

2017

Pivotal Voices, Era of Transition: Toward a 21st Century Poetics

2017

Ecstatic Émigré: An Ethics of Practice

2018

Someone Shot My Book

2018

The Sound of Listening: Poetry as Refuge and Resistance

2018

The Underground Poetry Metro Transportation System for Souls: Essays on the Cultural Life of Poetry

2019

From the Valley of Bronze Camels

2022

A Beat Beyond

2022

Working Time: Essays on Poetry, Culture, and Travel

2022

To Go Into the Words

2023

Ghosts and the Overplus

2024

Joy (Or Something Darker, but Like It)

2024

How to Draw a Circle

2024