Commenting on the fears and aspirations of contemporary citizens, this poetry collection speaks with an elegantly lyrical voice that is simultaneously knowing and naive. Written in spare phrasal passa
In 1975 John Ashbery published Self Portrait in a Convex Mirror and the book won the three major American prizesthe Pulitzer, the National Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award. Now i
W. B. Yeats meets Gregg Araki at a gay bar.The Tower is a "translation" of W. B. Yeats's The Tower—an homage and reinvention of the poet’s greatest work. Whereas Yeats’s book contended with his mortal
