Hayden Carruth Summary

Hayden Carruth has been an important figure in American poetry since the late 1940s. His numerous collections of verse certainly identify him as one of the country's most prolific writers, and James W... Read more

Critical Essay by Paul Ramsey Hayden Carruth's beautiful "To Artemis" … is a poem of formal address to the moon goddess…. The poem is dignified, sharply perceived, ... Read more

Critical Essay by David Shapiro Hayden Carruth's mottled document, The Bloomingdale Papers, opens with an appropriately horrifying apologia in prose that works: "Part of my illness was ... Read more

Critical Essay by Philip Booth Few poets have been as social … as W. B. Yeats; few have been as essentially solitary as Hayden Carruth. But like Yeats in his Tower, Carruth has for years roote... Read more

Critical Essay by Alastair Reid [Brothers, I Loved You All: Poems 1969–1977 clamors] for attention, in its richness and variety, in its burly energy, in its courage and gusto. His poems have a... Read more

The following excerpt is from Faulkner's laudatory review of Tell Me Again How the White Heron Rises and Flies Across the Nacreous River at Twilight Toward the Distant Islands. For a good lo... Read more

Hoey is a poet, educator, and critic who regularly writes the "Year in Poetry" essay for the CLC Yearbook. In the following review of Collected Shorter Poems, 1946–1991, he provid... Read more

In the following essay, Flint surveys Carruth's body of work, paying particular attention to The Sleeping Beauty and Working Papers. For at least two decades Hayden Carruth has been a poet o... Read more

In the following excerpt from his introduction to his Effluences from the Sacred Caves, Carruth reflects on philosophy and literature and discusses his approach to writing. By heritage and inclinat... Read more

Mitchell is an American poet, educator, and critic. In the following review, he applauds the skill with which Carruth employs a variety of voices and themes in If You Call This Cry a Song. I would ... Read more

Nordell is an American journalist, editor, and critic. In the following review, he determines that Sitting In provides "an uneven performance with a number of fine, thought-provoking moments.&#... Read more