Our critic A.O. Scott marvels at the power and paradox of a sonnet by Gwendolyn Brooks. Isabella Cotier By A.O. Scott Here’s a poem about patience, about self-control, about the need to conserve your ...
W. S. Merwin is a poet of paradoxes. In a 60-year career, he has made astonishing poetry of the separation from nature one experiences even in its midst. He has prophesied apocalypse to stave off ...