Explores how poems have been used as autobiographies throughout time.

A NEW YORK REVIEW E-BOOK ORIGINAL As former U.S. poet laureate Charles Simic has said, the secret to our identities lies not in grand events, but in the parenth

"The novelist and poet Ben Lerner argues that our hatred of poetry is ultimately a sign of its nagging relevance"--

Infused with dark, tumultuous, and urgent feeling--emotion recollected not in tranquility, but in intensity.