Poem Guides
Music and adolescent angst in the (18)80s.
A sonnet stands tall where the ungoverned waters of literature meet the strict land of law.
Metaphor in Lorca is a form of gorgeous shorthand.
For a poem about the brevity of every state of being, the single octave perfectly enacts its themes through its form.
A turbulent first love recollected in something like tranquility.
A poet’s poet investigates the power of his readers.
A poet’s poem from a novelist-poet.
A 17th-century poet’s project invites its readers to the table
How Oppen’s broken syntax praises God.
A rapturous re-reading of the poet’s love poem to life.
An intimate glimpse into one of the 20th century’s most fascinating marriages.
The Chicago poet transports readers into a dream deferred.
What does it mean if a poem is “neither pro nor con abortion”?
When polite prejudice makes for scathing satire.
Hart Crane's tour de force of homosexual love.
Who are all these people? Where is this waste land they inhabit? What is this chaos of impressions we are privy to? Wherefore such madness?
Was James Dickey writing about bestiality just for kicks, or was he attempting to revive the pastoral tradition?
The poet inhabits a dog and listens to his master’s voice.
How to be funny and sad.
Savoring the movement of the mind.