In this book, Peter Stitt presents interviews with five American poets―Richard Wilbur, William Stafford, Louis Simpson, James Wright, and Robert Penn Warren―and critical essays on their works, uniting the objectivity and insight of the critic with the words and vision of the artist. PETER STITT is a professor of English at Gettysburg College and editor of the Gettysburg Review . He is the author of Uncertainty and Plenitude: Five Contemporary Poets.