But the symbol in Valéry isn’t naïve—he presents the life of the mind as a series of intersected…

"...this is a girl who will be drawn to the unconventional, even to danger."

The best work in each of her new books is literally astonishing—action, thought, and emotion come…

I wish more serious poets strived for this poem’s looseness.

“It’s just a picture, Bryant says, not a baby. But it is the form of our baby, his precise…