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Passwords Primeval sets aside the artificial boundaries of poetry "schools" and "movements" to cut to the art of the matter. Tony Leuzzi's astounding knowledge of poetry draws new insights from such luminaries as Billy Collins, Gerald Stern, Jane Hirshfield, Patricia Smith, and Martín Espada. These new interviews provide insights into the poets and their poems without compromising any of their mystery. Whether you're looking for deeper understanding of your favorite poets or are simply interested in the lives of contemporary artists, Passwords Primeval reveals the interconnectedness of these masters whose voices echo each other from opposite ends of the same canyon.
A Best Book for Writers by Poets and Writers Magazine
"Poet and professor, Leuzzi brings questing intelligence and a practitioner's empathy to this collection of interviews with 20 poets who are diverse in terms of aesthetic allegiance, generation, and practice... The range of topics proves that poetry isn't just for poets. This book will be a joy for anyone who loves the art of conversation, not just the conversation of art." — Publishers Weekly *Starred* Review
"Leuzzi, while touching on discussions of tone and image and revision (which are common enough), takes advantage of opportunities for the poets to reveal unusual elements or expand to enlightening discussions on others’ works, or to speak on the influence that being married to a neuroscientist can have, or the surprising places one can go and find solace." — David Bloomenberg, Sycamore Review
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Michael Waters: “Writing by Ear”
Gary Young: “Horizontal Poetry”
Dorianne Laux: “Singing from a Wound”
Gary Soto: “To Write with Dark, Eternal Ink”
Patricia Smith: “Speaking through a Second Throat”
Scott Cairns: “A Glimpse of the Beautiful”
Martín Espada: “Putting Blood Back into Words”
Gerald Stern: “The Embrace of Everything”
Nathalie Handal: “Poems Woven from a Sacred Thread”
Stephen Dobyns: “Spontaneity and Surprise”
Karen Volkman: “By Way of Play and Accident”
Kevin Killian: “Poem as Gesture”
Peter Davis: “Pursuing Something Recklessly"
Dara Wier: “Bat Logic”
Bin Ramke: “Poetry Steeped in Intellectual Matter”
Mark Doty: “A Poetry of Expansiveness”
Billy Collins: “Poetry in Present Tense”
Carol Frost: “Balancing Images”
Robert Glück: “Abandoning the Middle Distance”
Arthur Sze: “Polysemous Poetry”