Reassessing the book’s potential as poetic form, Lynn Emanuel considers her own compositional choices — why she places a letter addressed to Baudelaire here and a lyric or persona poem there — as well as examples for developing a book’s architecture set by poets such as Mallarme and Pessoa. Discover the personal and artistic imperatives that inform this capacious poet’s work.

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