The book leads off with fourteen short essays on poems from James Dickey's last book, The Eagle's Mile, twelve short essays on James Wright's best prose poems, a long essay on Dickey's third novel, To the White Sea, a long essay on W. S. Merwin's 320 page poem, The Folding Cliffs, an essay on the major Iraqi poet Dunya Mikhail, a familiar essay on the Japanese poet Ryuichi Tamura, whose work Lieberman translated for publication...