Nation Topics - Elizabeth Bishop | The Nation

Learning to mourn with Susan Howe, Gertrude Schnackenberg, Anne Carson and C.D. Wright.

Elizabeth Bishop's Poems and Prose; James Gleick's The Information.

The best poems in Skin, Inc. have an excellent unconscious feeling, even when the news is bad and Thomas Sayers Ellis knows nobody is going to want to listen.

Nothing is simple in the poems of James Schuyler, not even the formal austerity of looking out a window.

Novelist Clarice Lispector idealized animals and idiots because they were free of the desire to translate experience into words.

Instead of offering healing or empowerment, the poetry of Jennifer Moxley explores vulnerability and "wrong life."

Barbara Guest's Collected Poems showcase her knack
for catching sight of time in its act of escaping one's grasp.

Henri Cole's Blackbird and Wolf contains some of the most truthful poems in modern American poetry. He is this year's winner of the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize.

Reading the letters of Robert Lowell and Elizabeth Bishop.

Austrian novelist Stefan Zweig saw himself as a Freud of fiction--a fellow spelunker in the caverns of the heart.