Mentors and Tormentors
Coedited by Sven Birkerts and Askold Melnyczuk
Essays
Cendrar’s Trunk
Essay by Howard Norman
The Cork-Lined Room
Essay by Thomas Bahr
A Deeper Music
Essay by John J. Clayton
Fathers and Son
Essay by Herbert Leibowitz
Influences
Essay by Alfred Alcorn
On Reprinting Golk
Essay by Richard Stern
Being Helped
Essay by William Harmon
Robert Maurer
Essay by David Ghitelman
Follow the Yellow Brick Road: On Teaching Poetry
Essay by Alan Shapiro
Novices
Essay by Clayton Eshleman
Influences
Essay by Joel Oppenheimer
A Note on George Oppen
Essay by Jordan Smith
Influence Among Elders
Essay by Liam Rector
Until We Are Pure Spirit
Essay by Stuart Dischell
Lowell’s Atmosphere
Essay by Michael Milburn
Robert Lowell
Essay by Kathleen Drucker Spivack
“Driving to the Interior”: Elizabeth Bishop, Guide
Essay by Eve Shelnutt
Inventory
Essay by Judith Baumel
Visit to a Dead Poet
Essay by Ruth Feldman
Philip Guston
Essay by William Corbett
Ay, Que Vida
Essay by Tom Sleigh
Arshile Gorky’s Embroidered Apron
Essay by Peter Balakian
Ansel Adams
Essay by Mariana Cook
Influential Anxieties
Essay by Donald Hall
Persimmons
Essay by Christopher Benfey
Roman Coins, Scythian Pottery
Essay by Askold Melnyczuk
The Imperfect Teacher
Essay by Steven Cramer
Starting
Essay by Sven Birkerts
Science Fiction
Essay by Thomas Frick
On Influence
Essay by Mark Rudman
Food and Cooking
Essay by Patricia Storace
Chuck Berry, Yes
Essay by Baron Wormser
An Honest Believer
Essay by George Scialabba
Poetry
Sunday at the Dump
Poetry by Alan Shapiro
At the Dump
Poetry by Alan Shapiro
A Version of Paolo and Francesca
Poetry by Peter Balakian
To Arshile Gorky
Poetry by Peter Balakian
64 Panoramic Way
Poetry by Carol Moldaw
Transmarine
Poetry by Carol Moldaw
Playland
Poetry by Mark Doty
Six Thousand Terracotta Men and Horses
Poetry by Mark Doty
Leland W. Smith
Poetry by Robert Polito
Something of Consolation
Poetry by Bruce Smith
Gaea
Poetry by Martin Edmunds
Thirteen Falls
Poetry by Lawrence Siems
Shopping Cart’s Ditty
Poetry by Jane Oliensis
The Debt
Poetry by Joel Oppenheimer
For George Oppen
Poetry by Jordan Smith
Letter Written on a Paper Mountain
Poetry by Robert Louthan
To Amelia Earhart
Poetry by Christopher Davis
Piccolo
Poetry by Dzvinia Orlowsky
Visiting Hours
Poetry by Dzvinia Orlowsky
Where Is Your Judas?
Poetry by Derry O’Sullivan
Reading History
Poetry by Derry O’Sullivan
Mary’s Argument
Poetry by Marie Howe