James Longenbach

James Longenbach's new book of poems, The Iron Key, will be published by Norton next year.

Currently

  • A Music of Austerity

    August 26, 2009

    In his best poems, Wallace Stevens makes deprivation feel seductively like plenitude.

  • Letters

    June 10, 2009 Subscribe

  • This Small Extravagance

    April 15, 2009

    Writing a biography of the mind of Shakespeare is a challenge that requires the ingenuity of an artist.

2008

  • Between Reticence and Revelation

    November 6, 2008

    Reading the letters of Robert Lowell and Elizabeth Bishop.

  • A Test of Poetry

    January 24, 2008

    More than any other American poet, George Oppen begs us to consider the elusive relationship between aesthetic and political responsibilities.

2006

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