another great figure in American poetry, challenges the idea that life is simply a precursor to death. Life is short, and ...

is an ode to bravery and untimely death. And it continues ... 434-line poem in one of Eliot’s poetry collections—and a bleak exploration of modern life. It’s a powerful work that changes ...

Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers,” by Adrienne Rich, is a blazing portrait of an artist and her work. Our critic A.O. Scott admires its ...

anguish and death. He says that poetry offers an “invitation back into the world,” to confront the difficult and to help grapple with life both speakable and unspeakable while finding joy in the ...

There is an underlying sense of peace in the face of death and the struggles of life. Swanson’s latest book of poetry, titled “Webs and Irises,” is 56 pages and includes dozens of poems ...

I still have a few of those poems. One (or a hundred) was about a boy, one about my little sister, one about death, and one was ... to have woven through a life. Rebecca Dotlich's books have ...

Swanson started writing poetry when she was in her early 20s and wrote a book of poems, “Spirit Within,” which she self-published in her early 40s. She wrote another poetry book in her early 50s, “The ...