![]() ![]() Many have been fashioning their relationship to language, their manner of responding and speaking through and about their concerns, their entire lives. Many of the poets have been writing poems-or the poems that helped them get to the ones in their books-for decades. When we inquire how long it took to write their books, every year several reply, “My whole life.” And this makes sense-a book is not the work of a moment or simply a product of the time the poet was setting down words on the page. We ask the poets to describe what set their books in motion, what keeps them returning to the page, and how they live as writers. Every year since 2005 we have highlighted a group of writers who have published their first full-length poetry collections in the prior twelve months. ![]()
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