Schnackenberg, a prize-winning American poet, retells the story of Oedipus through the eyes of the god Apollo, who has been given the task of setting Sophocles's play to music.
In an article for the Nation. James Longenbach heralded Black Zodiac as Charles Wright's "most richly satisfying single book", adding that "he has emerged as a poet whose every line seems completely recognizable and at the same time utterly fresh". These are poems suffused with spiritual longing, ly ...
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This book-length lyric essay by MacArthur Grant-recipient Anne Carson, written in 29 small chapters which the poet calls "Tangos," emotionally chronicles the history of a marriage gone bad. Carson's fragmentary style is joined by excerpts from love letters and classical texts. A 2001 New York Times ...
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'What draws us into Alan Shapiro's 'Mixed Company is not a conspicuous felicity or any sort of bravura, but the quiet, undaunted way he goes after the truth of human feeling and motive. It is sorrowfully assumed, in Shapiro's poems, that people are not like Milton's fusible angels - that there is an ...
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