Contents
Introduction - Shaun T. Griffin
1. Realist—the social art of a solitary man
Poem: Paragraph for Hayden - Marilyn Hacker
An Interview with Hayden Carruth - David Weiss
A Tool or a Weapon, a review of For You: Poems and The Clay Hill Anthology - Adrienne Rich
A Meaning of Hayden Carruth - David Rivard
Elegiac Locales: The Anarchy of Hayden Carruth - Stephen Kuusisto
On Hayden Carruth: The Poetics of Social Utility - Douglas Unger
The Real and Only Sanity, an Essay-Review of Brothers, I Loved You All - Geoffrey Gardner
From the Introduction to Working Papers: Selected Essays and Reviews - Judith Weissman
2. Jazzman—a lifetime of devotion to jazz, blues, and improvisation in his poetry and essays
Poem: Blues Sestina for Hayden Carruth - Sascha Feinstein
A Love Supreme: Jazz and the Poetry of Hayden Carruth - Matt Miller
When You Use Your Head, Your Ears Fall Off: My Twenty Years of Listening to Music with the Supernumerary Cockroach - David Budbill
Those Upward Leaps: An Interview with Hayden Carruth - Sascha Feinstein
Freedom and Discipline: Hayden Carruth’s Blues - Brian Henry
Harmonic Hayden - Baron Wormser
Listening In, an Essay-Review of The Sleeping Beauty - Sam Hamill
3. Survivor—writing through poverty, personal chaos, and literary isolation
Poem: Evening Star - Joe-Anne McLaughlin
Text as Test, an Excerpt from an Essay-Review of The Sleeping Beauty and Galway Kinnell’s Selected Poems - Donald Hall
My Friend Hayden - Wendell Berry
Selected Correspondence, from The Letters of Robert Duncan and Denise Levertov
Thriving on Hardship - Lynne Sharon Schwartz
Others Call It God - Carolyn Kizer
4. Innovator—creator of multiple poetic forms like the “paragraphs,”the “georgics,” the Vermont poems, and the epic poems
Poem: A Few Riffs for Hayden, Sitting in with His Horn - Philip Booth
Hayden Carruth - Marilyn Hacker
Being Human, the Art of Hayden Carruth - Ben Howard
Beautiful Dreamers: Helen in Egypt and The Sleeping Beauty - Charlotte Mandel
Poem: The Soft Time of the Year - Hayden Carruth
Contributors