When the world feels dreary and dark, one might go to the Harvard Book Store and pick up a collection of poems. The act of reading poetry is transformative; it can bring light and optimism in the ...
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 ...
In December 1990, poet Cornelius Eady, now 71, was feeling dispirited by the literary world. He’d attended the Assn. of Writers & Writing Programs conference in Denver that year and felt like he was ...
In 1981, Laura Mulvey famously amended her original contentions in "Visual Pleasure" (1973) to introduce the notion of a "female gaze." Through ekphrastic poems—lyric representations of visual ...