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For the last forty-five years, the distinguished poets Molly Peacock and Phillis Levin have read and discussed nearly every poem theyve writtenan unparalleled friendship in poetry. Here Peacock collects her most important essays on poetic form and traces the development of her formalist aesthetic across their lifelong back-and-forth. A Friend Sails in on a Poem offers a charming, psychologically wise, and metaphorically piquant look at navigating craft and creativity. This is a book both for serious poets as well as for anyone who wants a deep dive into the impact of friendship on art itself.

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Molly Peacock is a poet, biographer, and memoirist. Her latest poetry collections are The Analyst and Cornucopia: New and Selected Poems from Biblioasis and W.W. Norton and Company. She is the founder of The Best Canadian Poetry series and the co-founder of Poetry in Motion on New Yorks subways and buses. Peacocks poems have appeared in leading literary journals such as Poetry, The New Yorker, The Malahat Review, The Womens Review of Books, and Plume and are anthologized in The Oxford Book of American Poetry. She has also written two books about creativity in the lives of women artists: The Paper Garden and Flower Diary. Peacock lives in Toronto and teaches online for the Unterberg Poetry Center at the 92nd St Y.

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