Though part of Lisel Mueller's Learning to Play by Ear contains poems from her first collection, Dependencies, it also includes essays and interviews not found anywhere else. In this book, she discusses everything from syntax and diction to memory and the writing life.

Driven into Paradise: The Musical Migration from Nazi Germany to the United States (1999) is a collection of essays concerning a result of Nazi Germany that is not often considered. Editors Reinhold Brinkmann and Christoph Wolff have gathered writings by and about the forced migration of German musicians and the flood of artists and intellectuals who entered the United States from 1933 to 1944. The essays reveal the impoverishment of Germany that turned into enrichment for America.

Written by a prisoner of war, Sidney Stewart's Give Us This Day was first published in 1957. Stewart was the only survivor among a...