Poets’ Poets
A Renaissance of Words
Edited by Dennis Barone
ISBN 978-1-963908-76-3 290 pages $25.00
This anthology of essays recovers and reconsiders some of America's poets worthy of wider recognition and larger readership. Three dozen contemporary poets selected a lesser-known poet to discuss in a short essay. The poets discussed are therefore poets' poets and to understand these under-appreciated voices is to witness a renaissance of words.
Introduction
Dennis Barone
James Gates Percival (1797-1856)
Eric Hoffman
Jones Very (1813-1880)
David Cappella
Alexander Posey (1873-1908)
Michael Gessner
Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven (1874-1927)
Abigail Child
Frederick Mortimer Clapp (1879-1969)
Jed Rasula
Walter Lowenfels (1897-1976)
Joel Lewis
Harry Crosby (1898-1929)
Gian Lombardo
Laura Riding (1901-1991)
Rosanna Warren
Marcia Nardi (1901-1990)
Julie R. Enszer
Edwin Denby (1903-1983)
Barry Schwabsky
Josephine Miles (1911-1985)
Lisa Steinman
Hyam Plutzik (1911-1962)
Ciaran Berry
William Bronk (1918-1999)
Burt Kimmelman
Barbara Guest (1920-2006)
Martha Ronk
Catherine Breese Davis (1924-2002)
Martha Collins
Bert Myers (1928-1979)
James Finnegan
A. B. Spellman (1935- )
Aldon Lynn Nielsen
Richard Tagett (1936-2024)
Patrick James Dunagan
N. H. Pritchard (1939-1996)
Richard Kostelanetz
Gerald Burns (1940-1997)
Sheila E. Murphy
George F. Butterick (1942-1988)
T Thilleman
Leslie Scalapino (1944-2010)
Charles Bernstein
Lewis Warsh (1944-2020)
Peter Bushyeager
Bernadette Mayer (1945-2022)
Laynie Browne
David Shapiro (1947-2024)
Joseph Lease and Mark Statman
Ron Allen (1947-2010)
Carla Harryman
Maureen Seaton (1947-2023)
Suzanne Frischkorn
Frank Stanford (1948-1978)
Timothy Liu
Gil Ott (1950-2004)
Eli Goldblatt and Julia Blumenreich
Melvin Dixon (1950-1992)
Jacqueline Vaught Brogan
Robert Boucheron (1952- )
Benjamin S. Grossberg
Norman Finkelstein (1954- )
Patrick Pritchett
Joe Bolton (1961-1990)
Baron Wormser
William Greenwood
Johanna Drucker