Poetry

A Village Life, Louise Glück's eleventh collection of poems, begins in the topography of a village, a Mediterranean world of no definite moment or ...

Averno is a small crater lake in southern Italy, regarded by the ancient Romans as the entrance to the underworld. That place gives its name to Lou...

District and Circle inhabits the eerie new conditions of a menaced twenty-first century. In their haunted, almost visionary clarity, the poems assa...

FAITHFUL AND VIRTUOUS NIGHTby Louise Glückpublished by Farrar, Straus and Giroux * Louise Glück is one of the finest American poets at work today. ...

Carl Phillips's new poetry collection, Pale Colors in a Tall Field, is a meditation on the intimacies of thought and body as forms of resistance. T...

It is the astonishment of Louise Glück's poetry that it resists collection. With each successive book her drive to leave behind what came before ha...