Walking Light: Memoirs and Essays on Poetry

Commited to exploring the role of poetry and poets in our culture, Stephen Dunn provides a new, expanded edition of the essays originally published by W. W. Norton in 1993, now out of print. In Walking Light, Dunn plumbs the relationship between art and sport, the role of imagination in writing poetry, and emphasizes the need for surprise and discovery in a poem. "Your poem effectively begins, " he writes, "at the first moment you've surprised or startled yourself." An essential book for…