With wit, charm, and grace, the interviews in this collection demonstrate what readers of Wilbur's poems long have suspected: that this former U.S. Poet Laureate is no less persuasive and forceful in extemporaneous speech than he is in verse and prose. Wilbur proves as enlightening and thought-provoking with student reporters from Amherst College, his alma mater, as with journalists for The Paris Review, displaying the same dazzling...