Our critic A.O. Scott walks you through a poem that speaks to his mood right now. It’s called “Party Politics,” but it’s not about those parties, or those politics.
In Russia, no poet need starve if he can hack out odes extolling "socially useful" goals. In revolt against sloganeering paeans that read like Pravda set to rhyme, hundreds of ...
Through her long life she has expressed in the truest and finest sense the essence of poetry. Commencing her literary career in pioneer days she has always in her poetry maintained a pure lyrical note ...