The Contents. In An Autobiographical Foreword* the poet (whose personality is probably better known to a larger number of more diverse audiences than that of any other living American bard) devotes 28 ...

Tom Emanuel receives funding from the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC). If you have read The Lord of the Rings, there is a good chance that you skipped over one or more of the 75 songs and ...

New York: Boni and Liveright. 1925. 12mo. viii+304 pp. $2.50. by W. H. Davies, decorated with woodcuts by Stephen Bone. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company. 12mo. vi+71 pp. $2.00. COMPARISONS are ...

With National Poetry Month comes spring flowers and some of the year's biggest poetry publications. And as April wraps up, we wanted to bring you two of our favorites — retrospective collections from ...

This edition of Wright’s Collected Poems, published on her birth centenary, captures both the magnificent precision of her poetics and a drive towards meaning evident as much in her activism and ...

Already in the three short volumes which Hirato had hoped to publish, but for which he was unable to raise money, we see a growing tendency to break up the language and images, abstracting them into a ...

I’ll admit I came to “The Collected Poems of Delmore Schwartz” (Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, $50) with some trepidation. James Atlas’ masterful biography “Delmore Schwartz: The Life of an American Poet ...

A munificently talented and prolific generation of American poets is leaving us. In recent years, we’ve lost Adrienne Rich, Philip Levine, Maxine Kumin, Daniel Hoffman, Carolyn Kizer, Galway Kinnell, ...

For more than 60 years, poet Robert Bly has written about nature, mysticism and political protest. His two dozen collections have garnered many prizes, including a National Book Award. Now all of ...

John Ashbery: Collected Poems 1991–2000. The Library of America; 838 pages; $45. THE first living poet to have his work published by the Library of America was John Ashbery, and this is the second ...