
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...

In these nineteen interviews dating from 1962 through 1988 readers of Richard Wilbur's poetry will find new ways of understanding the poet's work as he discusses many issues, aggravations, & pleasures that he must confront as he writes.