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Marble staircases climb the hills where derelict estates
glimmer in the river-brightened dusk . . .
And some are merely left to rot where now
broken stone lions guard a roofless colonnade .
Book of the Year: Collected Poems by W. H. Auden, edited by Edward Mendelson (Modern Library).
This one is unavoidable. You can’t get around it. You have to go through it.… continue reading...
As Reviewed By: Jack Foley
Louis Zukofsky: Selected Poems. Edited by Charles Bernstein. American Poets Project/The Library of America, 2006.
… continue reading...In Ulysses, to depict the babbling of a woman going to sleep, I had sought to end with the least forceful word I could possibly find.
As Reviewed By: Preston Merchant
When Anthony Hecht first came to the Sewanee Writers’ Conference to teach a summer workshop in the early 1990’s, one of his students was particularly eager to meet him.… continue reading...
