Clairvoyant with Hunger

The book leads off with 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 Lieberman translated for publication during his fellowship year in Japan (1971-1972), an essay on four