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 ...

“I spent a good part of my 15th year puzzling over drafts of poems by Dylan Thomas… often copying out each successive draft myself… trying to deduce... the reason for revisions in sound”. So wrote ...

Uncollected poems and an essay show the troubled confessional poet striking a much brighter tone than in her more famous work A handful of forgotten early works by Anne Sexton, in which the American ...

ESSENTIAL ESSAYS Culture, Politics, and the Art of Poetry By Adrienne Rich Edited and with an introduction by Sandra M. Gilbert 411 pp. W.W. Norton & Company. $27.95. SELECTED POEMS 1950-2012 By ...

With "a stubborn predilection for finding out what a poem determinately means," renowned 100-year-old scholar Abrams (The Mirror and the Lamp) explores a variety of literary subjects in this ...

My maternal grandfather was an artist who was a sign-writer. When they become public, acts of collaboration in poetry are more private than it might seem. As with all collaborations across the arts, ...

Erín Moure brings her inimitable style of lateral thinking to her latest genre-straddling book, Theophylline: A Poetic Migration via the Modernisms of Rukeyser, Bishop, Grimké (de Castro, Vallejo) ...

Mr. Kaminsky is a Ukrainian American poet and the author of “Dancing in Odessa” and “Deaf Republic.” See more of our coverage in your search results.Encuentra más de nuestra cobertura en los ...

Rabindranath Tagore’s poetry collection was first translated into Spanish in 1915 by Zenobia Camprubí de Aymar, an accomplished woman and poet; she was assisted by Juan Ramón Jiménez, the 1956 Nobel ...