New York: Harper & Row, (1990) dj. SIGNED hardcover - His first collection of essays, written over a period of forty years, which discuss issues in modern poetry, and look at the works of twelve poets (mostly male, mostly white), including James Wright, David Ignatow, Denise Levertov, W.S. Merwin, Thomas McGrath, Robert Lowell, James Dickey, Galway Kinnell, Etheridge Knight, John Logan, Louis Simpson and Donald Hall. INSCRIBED on the title page. Index. xvii, 338 pp. ISBN: 0-060162651.