Verse chronicle June 2022
Companions of the past
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On new poetry by Lorna Goodison, Frank Bidart, Amanda Gorman, Anne Carson, Kevin Young & Tracy K. Smith.
On new poetry by Lorna Goodison, Frank Bidart, Amanda Gorman, Anne Carson, Kevin Young & Tracy K. Smith.
On new poetry by Louise Glück, August Kleinzahler, Rita Dove, Valzhyna Mort, Paul Muldoon & John Ashbery.
On Pushkin, Bach, the passive voice & more.
On Samuel Johnson, sketching da Vinci, a Sotheby’s star & more.
Defining terms following a debate on presidential “character.”
On the prolific career of the English novelist.
A reflection on the early joys of the written word.