The Game Changed: Essays and Other Prose

Contents

Contents Poets on Poets and Poetry The Poet and the Lawyer: The Example of Wallace Stevens 3 Michael Schmidt’s Lives of the Poets 10 A Note on “That’s All” 18 Tony Harrison and Michael Hofmann 21 Frederick Seidel 26 Enzensberger’s Kiosk 33 “Our Lives Are Here”: Notes from a Journal, Detroit, 1975 42 John Ashbery and Adrienne Rich 50 Poets on Poets and Poetry James Schuyler’s The Morning of the Poem 59 Word Made Flesh 68 A Few Reflections on Poetry and Language 78 Hayden Carruth 89 Marilyn Hacker 95 Aspects of Weldon Kees 99 Smokey Robinson’s High Tenor Voice 104 Joyce Carol Oates’s Blonde 106 Poets on Poets and Poetry Marie Ponsot 115 Conversation with Charles Bernstein 120 Working Rules for Lawyerland 129 The Game Changed 133 Being in the Language of Poetry, Being in the Language of Law 140 x ...