Recently added articles from The American Poetry Review:
Countless Cries: Father Gerard Manley Hopkins.(Critical essay)
Sep 01, 2009; ... I think then no one can admire the beauty of the body more than I do, and it is of course a comfort to find beauty in a friend or a friend in beauty. But this kind of beauty is dangerous. Then comes the beauty of the mind, such as genius, and this is greater than the beauty of the body and ...
Insomnia.(four poems)(Poem)
Sep 01, 2009; ... <Pre> But it's really fear you want to talk about and cannot find the words so you jeer at yourself you call yourself a coward you wake at 2 a.m. thinking failure , fool , unable to sleep, unable to sleep buzzing away on your mattress with two pillows and a quilt, they call them ...
The Retrospect Years After Their Deaths.(four poems)(Poem)
Sep 01, 2009; ... For Amy <Pre> A family of no conversation alternating monologues and silence at times shouts and blows someone hitting her head against the apartment wall as her own mother did which she so hated we loved each other only through our pores what to do with this love we could ...
Cancer.(four poems)(Poem)
Sep 01, 2009; ... <Pre> My friend whose husband will soon succumb to cancer loves to lie next to him at night to smell him and feel the warm stomach and flanks through his pajamas the two of them are glad he can still walk the streets of New York still get tickets to the Philharmonic on impulse they never ...
The Plateau.(four poems)(Poem)
Sep 01, 2009; ... <Pre> The climb was long and often dangerous, there were recriminations, stumblings, and yet never did I desire another for my companion on this path so at last we have gained the plateau the delicacy with which we attend to one another's liberty is remarkable our demons sleep in their ...