THE WORLD’S BODY—John Crowe Ransom—Scribner ($2.75). There is no primer of modern poetry. Readers who are intimidated by its obscurity soon find that most prose explanations tend to become almost as ...

“The connections made with Dante are extremely varied, as if his celebrated universality has made it possible for poets to engage his work on many levels and often on utterly divergent terms,” they ...

THERE is an air of general propitiousness about Josephine Young Case’s At Midnight on theThirty-first of March (Houghton Mifflin, $2.00) that gives it an exhilarating effect from first to last. The ...

MR. HOWELLS practices the profession of the critic somewhat half-heartedly, with little seeming care whether he is original, convincing, or even thorough. Does he suspect that his own critical work is ...

See Senior Director of TV Programming Meredith Speight’s recommendations from this month’s KQED 9, PLUS and Passport schedules. Videos from KQED Live Watch recordings of recent KQED Live events. Donor ...

Michigan is known for its Poets on Poetry series, which collects the prose statements, interviews and poetry-related ephemera of individual contemporary poets; this anthology of frank interviews fits ...

To judge from outward appearances, one might imagine that poetry occupies a place of unprecedented importance, at least in America. There are now more poets writing here than there have ever been — ...

In high school, I thought that poetry was a dead genre, both metaphorically and literally. A quick glance at my English classes’ reading lists had me thinking that the only poets were Shakespearean ...

Kent Johnson has a fanatic’s heart and a penchant for real estate, specifically the poetry market. His corner of that market has been a relentless, patently hysterical, coruscating survey of how ...