A Music of Austerity
James Longenbach
In his best poems, Wallace Stevens makes deprivation feel seductively like plenitude.
2009
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Cures for the Common Cold War
Benjamin Paloff : Poland
Polish poetry has been captive to our most flattering verdicts about history.
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Mixing History and Desire
Maria Margaronis
A new collection of C.P. Cavafy's beautiful, musical poems.
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With Mercy for the Greedy
Ange Mlinko
Why do Frederick Seidel's champions consistently transform his weaknesses into virtues?
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No Ideas but in Crowds
Joshua Clover
In Paris Spleen, Charles Baudelaire crystallized a new feeling: the private life of the public turn.
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Comfort and Agony
Ange Mlinko
Instead of offering healing or empowerment, the poetry of Jennifer Moxley explores vulnerability and "wrong life."
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Laurels for Ange Mlinko
John Palattella
Poet and Nation contributor Ange Mlinko has won the Randall Jarrell Award in Poetry Criticism for work that is "eclectic and astringent yet always lucid and generous."
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Antica e Moderna
Susan Stewart : Books
The poems of Umberto Saba let tradition speak to and through modernity.
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Ceaselessly Opportuning
Barry Schwabsky
Barbara Guest's Collected Poems showcase her knack for catching sight of time in its act of escaping one's grasp.
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Henri Cole: The Art of Violent Concision
John Koethe
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.
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Happy Thoughts!
Jordan Davis
Poet Kevin Davies asks: are you better off than you were 13,000 years ago?
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Between the Dead and the Living
Barry Schwabsky
A new collection of poems by Jack Spicer returns one of the great American visionaries to print.
2008
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Her Nature Was Future
The intimate friendship of Emily Dickinson and Thomas Wentworth Higginson takes wing in two new books.
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Between Reticence and Revelation
Reading the letters of Robert Lowell and Elizabeth Bishop.
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Lullaby
In language stark and plain as hymns, Susan Stewart explores our insatiable desire to find meaning in remembrance.
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Wanted: Political Poetry
Erica Landau : Presidential Election 2008
Are you worried about the election? Do you write haiku? People for the American Way and The Nation invite your entries the McPalin Haiku Hysteria competition.
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