In his fifth book of poems, The Mother on the Other Side of the World, James Baker Hall revisits his dark childhood with a spiritual maturity earned of lifelong struggle with the forces of silence, s
In 1955, Paul Praeder, poet and Coast Guard radio operator posted in the cultural isolation of San Juan, writes a letter to Billy Baxter Adams, a young poet who has just published a poem dedicated to
Composed while Wendell Berry looked out the multipaned window of his writing studio, this early sequence of poems contemplates Berry’s personal life as much as it ponders the seasons he witness
