Download or read book A Field Guide to Contemporary Poetry and Poetics written by Stuart Friebert and published by Field Editions. This book was released on 1997 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the hallmarks of FIELD magazine has always been its attention to what poets have to say about poetry. Many of these essays--by William Stafford, Denise Levertov, Gary Snyder, Adrienne Rich, Donald Hall, Robert Bly, and Sandra McPherson, among others--have become classics. This revised and expanded collection of essays from the magazine provides a rich and stimulating perspective on the state of contemporary poetry, as seen through the eyes of the poets themselves.