99 Poets/1999 An International Poetics Symposium : a Special Issue

"99 Poets/1999: An International Poetics Symposium presents the work of ninety-nine poets in dialogue with one another across the divides of language, nation, and temperament. Grounded in resonances and affiliations among the contributing poets, this issue is as striking for its interwoven themes, concerns, and forms as for its immediacy and intimicy. Indeed, this issue is the result of years of informal exchange through translations, readings, and visits. ... Starting in 1997, with the help of several coeditors, I asked poets from around the world to respond to a series of interrelated questions concerning national, multinational, international, global, regional, or local contexts for their work as poets or for the poety they most value."--Introduction