Clairvoyant with Hunger

""Clairvoyant with Hunger consists of fourteen short essays on poems from James Dickey’s last book; The Eagle’s Mile; twelve short essays on James Wright’s best prose poems; a long essay on Dickey’s third novel, To the White Sea; a long essay on W.S. Merwin’s 320-page poem, The Folding Cliffs; an essay on the major Iraqi poet Dunya Mikhail; a familiar essay on the Japanese poet, Ryuichi Tamura, whose work I translated for publication during my fellowship year in Japan (1971–72); an essay on four poets for Stephen Berg’s anthology on Marianne Moore, Theodore Roethke, D.H. Lawrence and Hart Crane; a long essay on the work of poet David Bottoms; and my own interview for a special feature of my work in Fifth Wednesday Journal in Chicago, Spring 2014."" —Laurence Lieberman