In-depth interviews with poets have been a popular feature of
Verse
magazine—and this volume collects many favorites, along with new interviews commissioned for this collection. The poets represent a wide range of aesthetics, ethnicities and politics. Although a particular focus of the book is emerging and innovative American poets, the collection also features interviews with Australian, Scottish, Irish, Czech, Slovenian and Kashmiri poets, as well as established American poets such as Hayden Carruth and Charles Wright. A vital record of contemporary poetry and an engaging read.
Brian Henry
’s poetry collections include
Graft
,
American Incident
and
Astronaut
, and he is the editor of
On James Tate
.
Andrew Zawacki
is the author of
Anabranch
By Reason of Breakings
, co-translator of Ales Debeljak’s
Arrow’s Shadow
and an editor of
since 1995.