For a certain demographic last September, the breaking news was all about five stanzas. News outlets, from the Guardian to Slate, were reporting the existence of a poem on the subject of death, called ...

Clive James' most anthologized poem is commonly known by its first two lines: "The Book of My Enemy Has Been Remaindered/And I Am Pleased." Those lines tell the uninitiated almost all they need to ...

Notebook: She and the Moths In sympathy with moths that beat themselves silly against her window glass she keeps the lights turned off and nightly stumbles blindly through the house. --Jean Esteve, ...

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