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The Poet's Notebook: Excerpts from the Notebooks of 26 American Poets
The 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 exper...more
Paperback, 320 pages
Published
August 17th 1997
by W. W. Norton & Company
(first published 1995)
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This was not exactly what I thought it would be. I guess I expected the notebooks to be more "sketchy." A word here, an idea there, but it was more a collection of individual poet's favorite aphorisms. Maybe I've mixed up the way of approaching my artwork with many small sketches on napkins, ledger paper, etc. with how writers create their work. But still it is a fun book to peruse.
Rereading this and finding different bits that resonate. Still would like to see more of the notes that led to a particular poem or series of poems. Rita Dove's section illustrates this process well.
I have been reading this book in spurts and random order. The main attraction is observing how some poets move from their journals into poetry. I have a particular attachment to the selected journals of William Stafford and would suggest this section to anyone who can appreciate concise wisdom. Some excerpts are better than others, but if you are really into contemporary American poets, or are beginning to write poetry on a serious level, then I highly recommend that you check it out.
This was not as exciting as I'd hoped. [Insert mournful tuba noise here.:]
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