My Business is Circumference

My Business Is Circumference: Poets on Influence and Mastery / 294-page paperback / 6" x 9" / ISBN 978-0-9664913-9-5 / Publication Date: September 2001 Twenty-eight distinguished contemporary American poets provide a multifaceted view of the creative process. Each poet has contributed a poem and chosen several poems by other poets that have influenced it. In an essay, each poet then describes how those influences have led to a sense of poetic mastery. The Contributors: A.R. Ammons L.S. Asekoff Stephanie Brown Hayden Carruth Gillian Conoley Amy Gerstler Judith Hall Hunt Hawkins Jane Hirshfield Claudia Keelan Yusef Komunyakaa Lisa Lewis Dana Levin Laurence Lieberman Thomas Lux Jane Mead Jack Myers Donald Revell Len Roberts Michael Ryan Ira Sadoff Hugh Seidman Jennifer Snyder Gerald Stern Lucien Stryk Karen Volkman Ted Weiss Joe Wenderoth "Anyone interested in how language calls to language, and heart to heart, will find these pages irresistible." —The Philadelphia Inquirer "In this