This is an interview with Nikki Giovanni. It discusses what influences her writing. She talks about other authors and poets and how they influence her.
This biographical essay highlights H.D.'s life as a writer and highlights her life in a personal. It also relates the different aspects & events in H.D.'s life to suggest influences to her own poetry.
This biographical essay highlights H.D.'s life as a writer and highlights her life in a personal. It also relates the different aspects & events in H.D.'s life to suggest influences to her own poetry.
This is a somewhat extensive biography of Joy Harjo. I skipped to the sidelights section because it gives more important information about Harjo's writing influences. The sidelights section also provides commentary about Harjo's books and poetry from critics-incorporates direct quotes.
This article reviews Gary Snyder as he begins to follow Zen tradition/beliefs, his life experiences after devoting himself to Zen Buddhism, the influence it had on his writing (poetry), etc.
This page is an overview of Gary Snyder's work, "Anasazi". It talks of how Snyder got the influence he needed from the Native American people to write it.
cummings used the circus as a metaphor for his idea of what Art should be. At the circus, the spectator/reader is continually amazed by the "unbelievably skilful and inexorably beautiful and unimaginably dangerous things" which are "continually happening" in the circus poem. There should always be such an intense experience happening in the tent or on the poetic stage that the spectator/reader "feels that there is a little too much going on at any given moment."
Cummings' object was to capture the essence of each experience he recorded with the fewest possible words.