The Art of Poetry Writing - Hardcover

William Packard is the author of The Poet's Dictionary, an A-Z reference of poetic devices, and The Poet's Craft, a collection of interviews with poets originally published in The New York Quarterly. He has been a professor of poetry at New York University for over twenty-five years, working with thousands of students; in his work with The New York Quarterly he has interviewed hundreds of practicing poets on the issues discussed in this book. He lives in New York City.