{"product_id":"9781590514399","title":"Talking with Poets: Interviews with Robert Pinsky, Seamus Heaney, Philip Levine, Michael Hofmann, and David Ferry.","description":"The  five interviews in this book were conducted by students in “The Art of  Poetry,” a course that Harry Thomas taught for several years. The  students’ depth of knowledge and keenness of insight into the poets’  work is an affirmation of American education. The poets respond to the  students with a frankness and feeling of fraternity that mounts at times  to a sort of communion.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe poets take up a great range of  matters in the interviews the nature of artistic creation, the varieties  and difficulties of poetic translation, poetry and politics, religion,  popular culture, the contemporary readership for poetry, and the  experience of living as a poet in a country not your own. They speak  with familiarity and enthusiasm of a number of writers, including Eliot,  Joyce, Rilke, Brodsky, Pound, Ovid, Dante, Ralegh, Wordsworth, Keats,  Mandelstam, and Wilde. One of the delights of reading these interviews  is to observe the poets responding to the same matter for instance,  Seamus Heaney speaking of Robert Pinsky’s translation of Czeslaw  Milosz’s great poem, “The World,” and Robert Pinsky speaking at length  of Seamus Heaney’s essay, in The Government of the Tongue, on Pinsky’s  translation. This is an intimate look into the minds of five of our most  celebrated contemporary poets and an invigorating meditation on some of  our most human concerns.","brand":"Other Press, LLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47133577314544,"sku":"9781590514399","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781590514399_p0.jpg?v=1763805094","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781590514399","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}