Descriptive poetry depends for its effects in part upon the vividness of details. Here the Virginia poet Claudia Emerson describes the type of old building all of us have seen but may not have stopped ...

Descriptive poetry depends for its effects in part upon the vividness of details. Here the Virginia poet Claudia Emerson Andrews describes the type of old building all of us have seen but may not have ...

Stand With Me Here, by Robert Francis (Macmillan, $1.75), is a great deal more than a young man’s first book of poems. It has the best sort of promise: a large measure of present achievement. The ...

THERE has been a real need for a definitive collection of modern poetry of the period since the World War, exemplifying recent work of established poets, the increase of associative imagery, the shift ...

I love richly detailed descriptive poems, and this one by Barbara Crooker, who lives in Pennsylvania, is a good example of how vivid a picture a poem can offer to us. Her most recent book is "Selected ...

Larry McMurtry once concluded that nearly all of Texas literature was minor and sentimentalist. Writers like J. Frank Dobie and Walter Prescott Webb mourned a Texas that had been dead for nearly half ...

Readers are generally well advised to keep away from books whose titles contain the words best or greatest in conjunction with poems or poetry. Changing on the Fly: The Best Lyric Poems of George ...

I love richly detailed descriptive poems, and this one by Barbara Crooker, who lives in Pennsylvania, is a good example of how vivid a picture a poem can offer to us. Her most recent book is “Selected ...