Here, for the first time, David St John has selected from essays and reviews written over the course of his career—about many of the major figures of our time: W S Merwin, Philip Levine, Mark Strand, Charles Wright, Donald Hall, Marvin Bell, Donald Justice, Jorie Graham, and dozens of others—and brought them together with six uncompromising and refreshingly candid interviews about the craft of poetry and the state of poetry today.