AccessMyLibrary provides FREE access to over 30 million articles from top publications available through your library.
Create a link to this page
Copy and paste this link tag into your Web page or blog:
JOHN BROWN, EDITOR In the Chair: Interviews with Poets from the North of Ireland Salmon Publishing, 2002, 20.00 [pounds sterling]
TWICE IN THE COURSE OF HIS intriguing collection of interviews, editor John Brown quotes Randall Jarrell to the effect that for many critics asking a poet about his work is akin to asking a pig to judge the bacon competition. Defying the general accuracy of this homey comparison--and it is easy to take Jarrell's point about critics--Brown has dared to assemble a comprehensive series of interviews that do in fact illuminate the work of poets whom he put "in the chair," if not on the spot. In part Brown is successful because his ...