Book of Donmon Teith

Although readers of prose fiction sometimes find descriptive passages superfluous or boring, description itself is often the most important aspect of a poem. Th

Spiegelman looks closely at a handful of contemporary poets including John Ashbery, Amy Clampitt, Jorie Graham, Charles Tomlinson and Charles Wright, to illustr

One of our most perceptive critics on the ways that poets develop poems, a career, and a life Though it seems, at first, like an art of speaking, poetry is an a

An Eye For An Eye Makes The Whole World Blind features poems by over 100 poets from all over The United States of America. This important book creates an altern

A collection of revised and expanded writings culled from the author's popular Washington Post Book World "Poet's Choice" column demonstrates how poetry respond