Poetry for Grownups: The Responsible Self in Molly Spencer’s If the House
Alexandra Barylski on Molly Spencer Well-deserved winner of the Brittingham Prize selected by Carl Phillips, If the house bears the mark of all
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Songs of a Sufi Martyr: Poetry and Heresy in Al-Manṣūr al-Ḥallāj
Nathaniel A. Miller on Al-Manṣūr al-Ḥallāj Al-Manṣūr al-Ḥallāj is as well-known for his unorthodox statements and execution as he is for his poetry.
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Rhina Espaillat and the Lyre of Orpheus
Alfred Nicol Reviews Rhina P. Espaillat The power of even the best poets begins to flag as they reach their eighth and ninth
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Christian Wiman Illuminated
Scott Casleton Reviews Christian Wiman’s He Held Radical Light The poet possesses the power of transfiguration. Like Phalaris’ bronze bull transforming the cries of
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Ocean Vuong: Poetry, Bodies, and Stillness. Alexandra Barylski interviews Ocean Vuong
Poet and essayist Ocean Vuong is the author of Night Sky with Exit Wounds, which was a New York Times Top 10 Book of 2016, winner of the Whiting
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Of Fights and Fables: A Warrior Poet of Pre-Islamic Arabia
Kevin Blankinship Reviews War Songs: ʿAntarah ibn Shaddād War Songs: `Antarah Ibn Shaddad is the latest achievement of the Library of Arabic Literature
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Neo-Donatists in Eden
Ed Simon on what to think of immoral artists Edmund Spenser knew how to turn a phrase. His vision, exemplified by his epic The
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Honey on a Razorblade
Thomas J. Millay Reviews Kevin Hart’s Barefoot Dark One, I sit alone without a light And let the darkness bring me close to
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A Future for a Handful of Hours
Poet Rosebud Ben-Oni on the poetry of Yehuda Amichai, promises, and a love that keeps us strangers It was not until our very
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A Blur of Wings: The Diaphanous and the Dissonant in Political Poetry
Ciahnan Darrell reviews Myronn Hardy’s Radioactive Starlings Myronn Hardy’s Radioactive Starlings is aggressively opaque. Written in a multitude of poetic forms, it draws
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