Citizen: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine
It is always a bit difficult to review a book of poetry and personal essays. The work is subjective and this one in particular has…
Remembrance Day
In Flanders fields the poppies blow Between the crosses, row on row, That mark our place; and in the sky The larks, still bravely singing,…
William Shakespeare’s Sonnets
When I started this, I began to note the sonnets I really liked, but stopped in the 70s because I realized I liked almost all…
My Sister Life and other poems
Years ago, sometime after I read Anna Karenina and knew that Russian Literature as one of my first literary loves as a result, I had…
Othello
It has been a few years since I read a Shakespeare play. While I have reread one since high school, I have not taken time…
Eugene Onegin
A novel in verse about the romance between the cynical dandy Eugene Onegin and Tatyana, a bookish country girl. The story itself is not particularly…
Beowulf: A New Verse Translation
Many people who have read Beowulf are rather turned off by its old style, slow story, and almost complete lack of characterization among other things.…
A Visit to William Blake’s Inn
Like Nancy Willard the author of this book, I loved William Blake's poetry from the first time I read it. I even made a layout…