Though D’Agata does not claim to have coined the term “lyric essay,” nor invented the form, his…

Among younger poets, her absolute refusal to accept limits on what is permissible has given her…

What wanderlust has wrecked your skirts?
 / They’ve ceased to swish that certain way, // that…

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

Some of Pai’s poems are themselves works of visual or conceptual art—instructions for art handlers,…