Poetry can quite easily be seen as the poor relation of the arts. Collections of poetry sell in remarkably small numbers and almost nobody earns a living from writing the stuff. And yet, if the ...
Poetry is difficult to recreate in another language, as distinct from literal translation. But here Sergei Roy captures the urgency and tumbling succession of images of Boris Pasternak's original, ...
In 1993, a poetry anthology appeared that seemed to speak directly to the spirit of the times and, in so doing, appeal to an audience far larger than what poetry in English could generally boast. More ...
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