Conversations with Richard Wilbur

by Richard Wilbur

Book Overview

With wit, charm, and grace, the interviews in this collection demonstrate what readers of Wilbur's poems long have suspected: that this former U.S. Poet Laureate is no less persuasive and forceful in extemporaneous speech than he is in verse and prose.

Wilbur proves as enlightening and thought-provoking with student reporters from Amherst College, his alma mater, as with journalists for The Paris Review, displaying the same dazzling...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0878054251
• ISBN13: 9780878054251
• Release Date: March 1990
• Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
• Length: 266 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.0"