"The book leads off with fourteen short essays on poems from James Dickey's last book, THE EAGLE'S MILE, twelve short essays on James Wright's best prose poems, a long essay on Dickey's third novel, TO THE WHITE SEA, a long essay on W.S. Merwin's 320 page poem, THE FOLDING CLIFFS, an essay on the major Iraqi poet Dunya Mikhail, a familiar essay on the Japanese poet, Ryuichi Tamura, whose work I translated for publication during my fellowship year in Japan (l971-72), an essay on four poets for Stephen Berg's anthology on Marianne Moore, Theodore Roethke, D.H. Lawrence and Hart Crane; a long essay on the work of poet David Bottoms; and my own interview for a special feature of my work in FIFTH WEDNESDAY JOURNAL in Chicago, Spring 2014. The essays range in location from Chicago to Atlanta, Iraq and Japan"--Provided by publisher.