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Sparks from the Anvil (2015): The Smith College Poetry Interviews

Christian McEwen

320 pages

7″ x 9″ Gatefold Paperback

978-0-87233-194-5

“In his interview, Patrick Donnelly suggests that in the deep core of everything we experience, ‘there is light, there is luminosity, there is tenderness.’ These words aptly describe the fundamental gifts to be found in Sparks from the Anvil. Sixteen of our finest poets shed abundant light on the poetic process. They also offer luminous observations on how and why a person might devote a life to the practice of poetry. Above all, these interviews affirm the worth of tenderness — the openness to feeling — as the sine qua non of art. Friend, this is a book you will love as you love poetry itself.”

Fred Marchant, author of The Looking House