"Paris Review: Interviews with Poets" Author: Editorial Department of "Paris Review" Publisher: People's Literature Publishing House

"Writer Interviews" is the most enduring and famous feature column of the American literary magazine "Paris Review". Since the interview with EM Forster in the first issue in 1953, "Paris Review" has published long interviews with the greatest contemporary writers in every issue. Initially titled "The Art of Fiction", it gradually expanded to "The Art of Poetry" and "The Art of Criticism". So far, there have been more than 300 interviews, covering almost all the important writers in the world literary world from the second half of the 20th century to the present. Writer interviews have become the signature of "Paris Review" and have set a model for the special genre of "interview".

An interview usually takes several months or even a year to prepare and conduct, and is not conducted to coincide with the publication of a new book by the writer, so there is no hint of commercial promotion. The writers naturally talk about their writing habits, methods, moments of confusion, literary secrets, etc. The content is interesting and has important documentary value. In addition, some interesting things happened around the interview, making this column itself a legend, which can be called "one of the longest-lasting cultural dialogues in world history."

"Paris Review Poets Interviews" includes long interviews with the following eighteen poets: Marianne Moore, Yevgeny Yevtushenko, Blaise Cendrar, George Seferis, Anne Sexton, Philip Larkin, John Ashbery, Derek Walcott, WS Merwin, Octavio Paz, Yehuda Amichai, Yves Bonnefoy, Czeslaw Milosz, Ted Hughes, Gary Snyder, Seamus Heaney, Robert Bly, and Jack Gilbert.

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