{"product_id":"learning-to-be-everyone-and-chard-deniord-9780817362843","title":"Learning to Be Everyone and No One: Interviews with Twelve Contemporary Poets","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eIntimate, unfiltered conversations with major contemporary poets that reveal how craft, conscience, and lived experience shape poetry\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eLearning to Be Everyone and No One\u003c\/i\u003e is a compelling collection of intimate interviews that captures poets speaking with uncommon candor about the making of their art. Through lively, unguarded conversations, Chard deNiord draws out moments of insight, humor, struggle, and revelation, revealing how poetry grows from lived experience and sustained attention. The result is an experience that feels immediate and alive, offering readers a sense of presence inside the creative act as it unfolds in real time.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGathering voices that have helped shape contemporary poetry, the book features conversations with Robert Hass, T. R. Hummer, Major Jackson, Ali Kinsella, Halyna Kruk, Li-Young Lee, Ada Limón, Dennis Nurske, Dzvinia Orlowsky, Robert Pinsky, Charles Simic, Bruce Smith, Gerald Stern, Ruth Stone, and Chase Twichell. Together, these poets reflect on identity, politics, race, gender, memory, and the natural world with wit, urgency, and precision. More than a record of distinguished careers, this volume forms a chorus of perspectives that affirms poetry's enduring power to challenge, console, and remain \"the news that stays the news.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Chard Deniord\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0817362843\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780817362843\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Fire Ant Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/15\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 210\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover","brand":"Chard Deniord","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48997466341631,"sku":"9780817362843","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/learning-to-be-everyone-and-chard-deniord-9780817362843","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}