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ISBN: 9781567926958
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Published: David R. Godine Publisher - December 28th, 2021
This book is such a charmer–and a great pleasure to see return to print. Originally published in 1978 as Remembering Poets, I first devoured the 1992 revision with the Yeatsian title Their Ancient Glittering Eyes. Donald Hall, the former poet laureate, collects his reminiscences of the modern poets Eliot, Pound, Frost, Moore, Macleish, Winters, and Dylan Thomas, encountered in his youth, often interviewing them for the Paris Review. It is a wonderful contribution to what he himself calls the genre of “literary gossip.” Funny, moving, and delicious, this is a great book for poetry lovers. Vain, crotchety Frost comes off better than expected, Thomas, enormously drunk, worse. The portrait of the treasonous Pound is surprisingly affecting. Eliot, imperious, archly comic, like no writer since. And Marianne Moore, unforgettable, serving the interviewer Fritos, cheez whiz, and 7 raisins in a cupcake liner. ~ Reviewed by Dafydd Wood