Poets are generally at ease discussing the works of other poets and discussing the work of poetry in general. But rarely do we find them so quickly predisposed to explicating their own poems, preferring instead to let their poems speak for themselves (otherwise, why write them?). In What Will Suffice, poets Christopher Buckley and Christopher Merrill, following up on Wallace Stevens's assertion that "poetry is the subject of the poem," have culled ars-poetica poems from more than 100 contemporary poets. These investigations into the art of poetry range from the oblique to the obvious, and nearly all of them are accompanied by textual explications by the poets that touch on topics such as faith, irony, mystery, music, imagination, language, curiosity, inspiration, religion, magic, grace, passion, observation, memory, and myth. This generous gesture on the part of the poets could have been accompanied by a greater generosity on the part of the publisher: the comments are set in puny type with cramped leading.