Ecstatic Occasions, Expedient Forms
85 Leading Contemporary Poets Select and Comment on Their Poems
(amazon)David Lehman (View Bio)
University of Michigan Press, 1996
Macmillan, 1987
"This enjoyable romp through the thoughts of 85 poets is a lark masquerading as a collossus...a rewarding glimpse of the passion and restraint, the control and chaos, the artifice and the chance at work in those who practice poetry." — Publishers Weekly
"It's a useful and entertaining anthology." — Washington Post Book World
"David Lehman has briskly refashioned the legacy of the poet-critic.... [T]he self-reflexive, virtually autobiographical currents in ECSTATIC OCCASIONS, EXPEDIENT FORMS undoubtedly are what render it so indispensable and unprecedented." — Robert Polito, Boston Review
"[A] generous and sharp-witted anthology.... an intriguing and unusually informative glimpse into the creative process.... ECSTATIC OCCASIONS, EXPEDIENT FORMS is an endlessly fascinating anthology of poetry." — Newsday
