Mary Karr describes herself as a black-belt sinner, and this -- her fourth collection of poems -- traces her improbable journey from the inferno of a tormented childhood into a resolutely irreverent ...
In Wallace Stegner’s novel Crossing to Safety a young woman named Charity advises her boyfriend to find something useful to do besides writing poems: “All I’m saying is that poetry isn’t direct ...
The American poet Yvor Winters (1900–1968) considered “Church Monuments,” by George Herbert (1593–1633), to be not only Herbert’s finest poem, but one of the greatest poems in the English language.
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