Further Reading
- Chawla, Louise. "Reconciliation: David Ignatow." In In the First Country of Places: Nature, Poetry, and Childhood Memory, pp. 85-103. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1994. (Traces Ignatow's changing views on nature in his writing.)
- Duemer, Joseph. "To Make the Visible World Your Conscience." New England Review 14, No. 4 (Fall 1992): 268-86. (Compares Adrienne Rich's Time's Power and Ignatow's Shadowing the Ground.)
- Ignatow, David. "Living with Change." In Literature & the Urban Experience: Essays on the City and Literature, pp. 193-208. Edited by Michael C. Jaye and Ann Chalmers Watts. New Brunswick, N. J.: Rutgers University Press, 1981. (Recounts incidents in Ignatow's life pertaining to race, teaching, and writing.)
- Ignatow, David. "Selections from ‘The Notebooks: 1983-1986’." Ohio Review 38 (1987): 25-30. (Ignatow describes his writing process and style.)
- Ignatow, David. "The Beginning." In American Poets in 1976, pp. 130-42. Edited by William Heyen. Indianapolis, Ind.: Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1976. (Chronicles Ignatow's struggles and desire to become a poet despite family circumstances.)
- Ignatow, David with Gerald Malanga. "David Ignatow: The Art of Poetry XIII." Paris Review 21 (Fall, 1979): 55-99. (In an interview, Ignatow discusses such topics as the influences on his writing, the nature of fame and isolation, and his opinions of other contemporary poets.)
- Ignatow, David with Lynn Emanuel and Anthony Petrosky. "It's Like Having Something in the Bank: An Interview with David Ignatow." American Poetry 3, No. 2 (Winter, 1986): 64-85. (In an interview, Ignatow discusses his views on the structure of Whisper to the Earth, changes in political poetry, and his writings about suicide.)
- Jarrell, Randall. Review of The Gentle Weight Lifter. The Yale Review 48 (1955): 123-24. (Criticizes Ignatow's work as being too derivative of William Carlos Williams.)
- Kelen, Leslie. "The Only Way to Live: An Interview with David Ignatow." Black Warrior Review 19, No. 2 (Spring 1993): 110-26. (Interview in which Ignatow discusses his changing writing style and influences on his work.)
- Lazer, Hank, ed. "Panel Discussion." In What Is a Poet?: Essays from the Eleventh Alabama Symposium on English and American Literature, pp. 185-225. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1987. (Panel discussion in which Ignatow questions the nature of poetry and offers insight on literary criticism.)
- Lewis, Joel. "Souvenirs from a Zeitgeist." American Book Review 12, No. 4 (September, 1990): 14. (A review of Ignatow's memoirs The One in the Many.)
- Pacernick, David. "David Ignatow: Prophet of Darkness and Nothingness." In Meaningful Differences: The Poetry and Prose of David Ignatow, edited by Virginia R. Terris, pp. 59-78. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1994. (Traces the strong influence of Judaism in Ignatow's poetry.)
- Rosenberg, Harold. "Six American Poets." Comment 32, No. 4 (October, 1961): 349-53. (In a review of Rescue the Dead, Rosenberg considers the influence of being Jewish on six poets, including Ignatow.)
- Wagner-Martin, Linda. "Postmodernist Ignatow." In Meaningful Differences: The Poetry and Prose of David Ignatow, edited by Virginia R. Terris, pp. 103-15. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1994. (Analyzes Ignatow's unique voice, identifying him as a postmodernist and arguing that his straightforward style should not be equated with simplicity.)
- Zweig, Paul. "David Ignatow." American Poetry Review 5, No. 1 (January, 1976): 29-30. (In a review of Facing the Tree and Selected Poems, Zweig characterizes Ignatow as a major writer of great importance.)
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