establishes their special character: metaphors for poetry have, themselves, a kind of lyric status, existing ... modern poetry are those that offer a metaphor for poetry itself. Readers who could not remember another ... line by Archibald MacLeish can remember that poetry is a fruit. And readers with no particular taste ...

either. It just stayed exactly the way it was when we put it into the ground. My grandfather came once ... "I'm pleased the old man isn't here to see this," my mother would say. At a quarter ... to three my mother brought out tea and a plate of biscuits. "You know," she said ...

Berryman's The Dispossessed? I'd bet fewer than 1,000. The first edition of my new book is 7,500. ... And Sharon Olds and Adrienne Rich outsell me; they must do 10,000 of theirs. My editor told me the ... naysayers, but it's not true. Patrick Malcor: You said that there is no specific style of poetry ...

a Chicago hospital before my father flew up to accompany him on a final flight back to San Francisco. Fritz ... died less than a month later and his funeral service was at the Neptune Club in San Francisco. It was ...