New Books for Writers
The following list is a selection of recently published books, arranged alphabetically, about writers and writing.
Catching Life by the Throat: Poems From Eight Great Poets (Norton, April 2008) edited by Josephine Hart. An anthology of essays by canonical poets such as W. H. Auden, Emily Dickinson, Philip Larkin, and Sylvia Plath about how to read poetry and why we should. Each essay is accompanied by a selection of the poet's work.