Long rumored to have been in production and finally realized, the fruits of Jack Gilbert's incredible career as one of the most important poets of his generation, of any generation, have been gathered ...

Nathaniel Mackey's book Blue Fasa has been described as metaphysical and mythological. NPR's Rachel Martin speaks with poet Douglas Kearney about the lure of Mackey's words. Nathaniel Mackey's poetry ...

WHETHER we are to regard history as an analysis of tendencies or as a biography of individuals is ultimately a question, not of absolute truth and falsehood, but of relative temperament. If the ...

In this installment of All Things Considered's National Poetry Month series, we hear two poems from listeners — meditations on matter and soul — and a note from a teacher who's gotten involved, too.

Friedrich Hölderlin was an important German Romantic lyric poet whose great work managed to bridge the Classical and Romantic ...

List of Contributors -- Note on Transliteration and Abbreviations -- Editor's Introduction: Nasir-i Khusraw and Philosophical Poetry / Alice C. Hunsberger -- I. Speech and Intellect -- 1. The Position ...

Nathaniel Mackey's poetry has been described as metaphysical and mythological. DOUGLAS KEARNEY: (Reading) Such as it was there was a life, Sophia said, it seemed it lectured us. It sat us down.