Poetry

Back Talk: Honor Moore Back Talk: Honor Moore

Poet Honor Moore talks about her family's response to her memoir, The Bishop's Daughter.

Jun 11, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Christine Smallwood

Personal Histories Personal Histories

New collections by Adam Zagajewski and Julia Hartwig suggest that postwar Polish verse can't be reduced to "poetry of witness."

Jun 11, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Benjamin Paloff

Loss Lieder Loss Lieder

It's National Poetry Month, and that means cooked meat.

Apr 8, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Ange Mlinko

Israel Is Israel Is

Israel Is Israel is he or she who wrestles with God--call him what you will, not some goon (with a rabbi and gun) in a pre-fab home on a biblical hill....

Apr 3, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Peter Cole

A Nurse of Enchantment A Nurse of Enchantment

Helen Adam wrote to raise gooseflesh. A new collection of her work takes her on her own terms.

Mar 27, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Ange Mlinko

One Sun Roaring One Sun Roaring

The Zen reflections in Philip Whalen's poetry have been collected in one beautiful book.

Mar 27, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Jordan Davis

Un Lio Bestial Un Lio Bestial

In his poetry Roberto Bolaño gave himself over to the subversive, to antiheroes, ballad and saga.

Mar 13, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Forrest Gander

A Test of Poetry A Test of Poetry

More than any other American poet, George Oppen begs us to consider the elusive relationship between aesthetic and political responsibilities.

Jan 24, 2008 / Books & the Arts / James Longenbach

A Human Pledge A Human Pledge

The most important American love poet in living memory, Robert Creeley celebrated the body and its ambivalent desires with a touch as light as a song.

Jan 2, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Susan Stewart

The Madman and the Poet The Madman and the Poet

In a new collection of poems by the mentally ill Czech dissident Ivan Blatný, the world and the poet's interpretations of it are continuously transforming.

Dec 6, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Benjamin Paloff

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