The celebrated critic returns to his first love, poetry, with essays on Rimbaud, Mallarmé, Rilke, Eliot, Akhmatova, Celan, Wilde, Graves, Brodsky, Larkin, and

“Once upon a time, there was a little girl who wanted to be somebody, but she was always told that she was nothing.” The writer in Juanita Gaskin remained d

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In this anthology, Vincent Barletta, Mark L. Bajus, and Cici Malik treat the Iberian lyric in the late Middle Ages and early modernity as a deeply multilingual,

Basho (1644-94) is perhaps the best known Japanese poet in both Japan and the West, and this book establishes the ground for badly needed critical discussion of