My Business Is Circumference: Poets on Influence and Mastery

From arriv s Amy Gerstler, Jane Hirshfield and Yusef Komunyakaa to arrivistes Dana Levin and Jennifer Snyder, My Business Is Circumference: Poets on Influence and Mastery, edited by founding co-editor of the American Poetry Review Stephen Berg (Shaving), features poets discussing their favorite writers. Gillian Conoley elects Mallarm , Jack Spicer, Dickinson and Foucault as her most prominent influences. Hayden Carruth asserts that, though ""the Big-Ass poets"" won't admit it, poetry by ""a third-grader from Abilene can enlarge one's sensibilities and set them ticking."" The range of aesthetic and intellectual projects in this collection will behoove many poets. (July)