Article: A conversation on British and American poetry.(poets Michael Hofmann, William Logan)(includes article on poetry readings)

MICHAEL HOFMANN:

It's a curious thing. While I was in England, I was forever squinting westward to America. Finals essay at Cambridge on Berryman in 1979, the "American paper" with the wonderful Tony Tanner on writers who were mainly alive and mainly (then) unobtainable, the intended Ph.D. on Lowell. When I got my foot in the door (literally) at Fabers, just about my first question was: "What Americans are you publishing?" Or the time you kindly got me a box of American poetry books instead of a tiny check from Agni. Things forbidden the common man, or whatever Lowell says in "West Street and Lepke." Weldon Kees! John N. Morris! Bill Merwin! Those Atheneum books! ...

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