Poems Are Hard to Read gathers together a half-century of prose pieces written by William Meredith. The work includes essays on poetry and poets, reviews, occasional addresses, memoirs, and a Paris Review interview given shortly before his retirement. In Poems Are Hard to Read, Meredith skillfully recounts episodes in the lives of such poets as John Berryman, Robert Lowell, Randall Jarrell, W. H. Auden, and Robert Frost, and depicts his interactions with these complex personalities against the cultural climate of the times.
- ISBN13 9780472064274
- Publish Date 31 December 1990
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint The University of Michigan Press
- Format Paperback
- Pages 258
- Language English