Articles

Edwin Denby made his name as a dance critic, but his poetry was a pivotal influence on the writers and artists of the New York School.

On Ted Berrigan’s exuberant and idiosyncratic prose.

The boredom of dystopia in Elisa Gabbert's Normal Distance.

What made Rilke great?

Super-Infinite, a new biography of John Donne, presents the poet in all of his piety and lust.   

Jana Prikryl's Midwood is a strange and ecstatic portrait of middle age.

The poetry of Cecilia Vicuña's soft sculptures.  

For Renee Gladman, drawing and writing function as two sides of the same verbal art. 

Lisa Robertson’s Boat works against the certainties much poetry strives to achieve.

Jay Hopler’s final collection, Still Life, joins a canon of work by poets facing mortality.