Nation Topics - Emily Dickinson | The Nation

Robert Duncan saw in H.D.'s poetry “The story of survival, the evolution of forms in which live survives.”

Emily Dickinson's reclusiveness was a way of protecting the world from herself.

A new collection of poems by Jack Spicer returns one of the great American visionaries to print.

The intimate friendship of Emily Dickinson and Thomas Wentworth Higginson takes wing in two new books.

Following the quirky, revolutionary life path of one of the most celebrated twentieth-century intellectuals.

The Zen reflections in Philip Whalen's poetry have been collected in one beautiful book.

In This Republic of Suffering, historian Drew Gilpin Faust strips from the Civil War any purpose beyond massive slaughter.

The most important American love poet in living memory, Robert Creeley celebrated the body and its ambivalent desires with a touch as light as a song.

Henry James is not a name that springs to mind when we think of adventure stories, prose epics or historical fiction.

This is a book that should be on every activist's bed table, like Gideon bibles in hotels.