Contains articles in which forty-three contemporary American poets discuss their art, including contributions from Alice Walker, Denise Levertov, Adrienne Rich, Robert Bly, Robert Creeley, and others.
The author discusses his views about how society's attitude towards writers and writing has changed and he explains how these attitudes have affected the way writing is taught.
Provides the essays, articles, and poetry by Robert Hayden, a famous African-American poet and includes interviews and conversations with him from 1972-1976.
