The Poet's Notebook

This Wonderfully Instructive Collection Of Journal Writings Notebooks Jottings . . . Workbook Fragments Leads Us Into The Corners Of The Mind Where Poetry Hides.Miami Heraldthe Poet''S Notebook Brings Together Excerpts From The Working Notebooks Of Twenty-Six American Poets. Unsystematic Spontaneous Irreverent Intense Witty Unexpected These Notebooks Shimmer With Reflections Speculations Confessions Quotations Impressions And Ruminations. They Create A Portrait Of The Artist As A Purposeful Gatherer And Sifter Of Every Kind Of Experience.. Included Are The Notebooks From Such Distinguished And Eclectic Voices As Rita Dove Stephen Dunn Carolyn Forch Donald Hall Garrett Hongo Joy Harjo Donald Justice Yusef Komunyakaa James Merrill Mary Oliver Charles Simic And William Stafford.