Talking All Night: The New York Poets Interviews, Photographs, Letters

By: Hillringhouse, Mark

Mark Hillringhouse, in his book of interviews with the poets of the New York School, lets the poets speak for themselves in their own words about the poetry they were writing, giving readers for the first time, a full picture of how they created and forged a new poetics. By interviewing the poets in their homes, he lets readers see inside their world during the years they were at their peak. Along with the interviews, Hillringhouse, who is also a photographer, includes never before seen photographic portraits of each of the poets and personal letters that they wrote. It is a full account of how these poets were influenced and how they interacted with each other as they explain what brought them to poetry and how they developed their poetic craft. Hillringhouse provides an in-depth introduction to each of the interviews that includes John Ashbery, Amiri Baraka, Ted Berrigan, Edwin Denby, Barbara Guest, Bob Holman, Kenneth Koch, Bernadette Mayer, W.S. Merwin, Howard Moss, Simon Pettet, James Schuyler, Tony Towle, Gerald Stern, Paul Violi, and Anne Waldman.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1947175661
• ISBN13: 9781947175662
• Release Date: April 2025
• Publisher: Serving House Books
• Length: 404 Pages
• Weight: 1.18 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"