‘better’—but to say it’s great poetry is just absurd.” Chiasson is not wrong about the prank-like quality of “Pale Fire”—the book tricks us into thinking it’s one thing (a ...

The publication of Vladimir Nabokov's Selected Poems is a major literary event. The great, grand and much missed novelist (Lolita, Pale Fire) was "first a poet," as the book's editor Thomas ...

In his beautiful poem The Great Fires the American poet Jack Gilbert ... Isaiah said each man walks in his own fire for his sins. Love allows us to walk in the sweet music of our particular ...

GROSS: He's written great descriptions of mania and depression in his poetry and in his letters. The subtitle of your book, "Setting The River On Fire," comes from one of his poems called "Reading ...

Chico author and artist Meghan Irene Turner, survivor of the Camp Fire, recipient of a Ph.D. from the Institute of Metaphysical Humanistic Science, and ardent observer of the natural world, finds ...

100 Great Catholic Poems is not the first foray into poetry by Word on Fire, but it does raise the question: How does poetry fit with the stated goal of that publishing house to evangelize the world?

But all visitors to the Chicago History Museum’s new exhibit on the Great Chicago Fire of 1871 will come away with a deep ... They can write a story, song or poem or draw a picture to express their ...