Nation Topics - William Carlos Williams | The Nation

A new biography shortchanges the poetic achievement of William Carlos Williams.

Unwrapping the enigma of the career diplomat who wrote the Long Telegram.

A Polish poet’s searing and confused lyricism.

The Midlands poet Roy Fisher has never aspired to a readership. All the more reason to welcome his Selected Poems.

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

Remembering Ben Sonnenberg (1936–2010)—writer, publisher, boulevardier—and his quarterly, Grand Street.

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

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

Helen Adam wrote to raise gooseflesh. A new collection of her work takes her on her own terms.

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