Seamus Heaney’s love-poem to marriage, The Skunk, combines exile and erotica, moving from an American wilderness image ...

Closely aligned to the theme of romantic love is that of desire, and across the centuries poets have written about the ...

The way I read it, three contradictions run through Hillbilly Elegy. One is love for the solidarity of the working-class family and community and fear and anger at the multiple dysfunctions that ...