Poetry

If anyone would question why musician Bob Dylan was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2016, the answer is easily found by cracking the covers of The Lyrics: 1961–2012.

“Andrew Motion’s imagination takes him and readers on a journey to many places and times, but always with a sense of the inner self.”

“If you buy only one book of poetry this year, let this be the one.“

Last books by any writer are always a mixed blessing.

Here is a book almost as rare as its author, Emily Dickinson (1830–1886).

Ezra Loomis Pound cemented his literary career as one of the chief architects of Modernism. He edited T. S.

For many years W. W. Norton employed one of the best poetry editors in the country. Carol Houck Smith who died in 2008 worked at Norton for sixty years.

“Waldman has always been a writer of the ‘outriders,’ the visionary rebels who make art new and engaged.”

“This is a volume rich with the wisdom of one of our finest poets, a book laced with darkness and saturated with light.”

“The Whole Harmonium is a must-read for anyone interested in knowing more about the man who wrote some of the most imaginative and brilliant poems in the American

Kevin Young has a new collection called Blue Laws, culled from 10 ten previously published books of poetry, with new “bonus tracks” as he calls them.

“We go to Thoreau for Nature. We come to Davis for the whole essence of being alive.”