For a certain demographic last September, the breaking news was all about five stanzas. News outlets, from the Guardian to Slate, were reporting the existence of a poem on the subject of death, called ...
Do you ever just want to quote someone forever? Reading Clive James’ Poetry Notebook: Reflections on the Intensity of Language, struggling to find ways to talk about it, I dreamed of Echo, the nymph ...
Notebook: She and the Moths In sympathy with moths that beat themselves silly against her window glass she keeps the lights turned off and nightly stumbles blindly through the house. --Jean Esteve, ...