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 ...

Do you ever just want to quote someone forever? Reading Clive James’ Poetry Notebook: Reflections on the Intensity of Language, struggling to find ways to talk about it, I dreamed of Echo, the nymph ...

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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, ...

Visiting the King County Juvenile Detention Facility I couldn’t help thinking of the words of poet Robert Frost. He knew well the value of poetical metaphor when he wrote these lines: expect to ride ...