When Selected Poems first appeared in 1959, Mark Van Doren wrote that Thomas Merton believed that “poetry at its best is contemplation—of things, and of what they signify.” At a time when poets are ...
Paul Celan, Memory Rose Into Threshold Speech: The Collected Earlier Poetry, A Bilingual Edition, translated by Pierre Joris and with commentary by Pierre Joris and Barbara Wiedemann, 2020 (image ...
Eric Kapitan’s title Darkness – Poems of Extreme Horror is pretty much a review in and of itself. Kapitan’s collection of horror poems is dark, gore-filled, but in some instances extremely beautiful ...
Michelle Paulsen, an associate professor of English at The Victoria College in Victoria, has three published books of poetry. The guest poetry editor is Jim LaVilla-Havelin, whose fourth collection of ...
"Welcome to the night!" cries the opening poem in this celebration of nocturnal life. Everything from snails to mushrooms has a role to play and something different to say (the title is taken from a ...
My father in the night shuffling from room to room on an obscure mission through the hallway. to primitive wingbeats shuddering in the treetops. Edward Hirsch, a MacArthur Fellow, has published nine ...