Many of this year's books are sad. It's hard not to read the ... them deal as much with private as with public pain. Needless to say, this year's poetry books are powerful. This is the seventh ...

These women, along with 96 inspirational others, have shared the private stories behind the poems that get under their skin in a beautiful and timeless book ... the pain and angst, the last ...

My column gives me limited space, so apart from the books I’ve already ... prefer sad music when they’re sad, and sad poetry too — someone else’s pain to harmonize with mine.

Few poetry books may be more openly honest than Suzan ... Zan’s poems show the pain of loss, the seeking of meaning in loneliness, the joy of growth through years of sacrificing self, and ...

What kind of love poems are you in the mood for? T hroughout literary history, love poems have connected lonely hearts, ...

When in 1914 the first poems of Spoon River ... clairvoyant insights, the book seems less revealing of Lindsay than of Masters. Lindsay’s story is a sad one. Born of deeply religious parents ...

I had put an email address in the back of the books published as ... These may dull the pain but they won’t help you process it. Try the complicity of poetry to get you through the day or ...

Amazon The 2023 NBCC Award for Poetry went to Phantom Pain Wings by Kim Hyesoon, translated by Don Mee Choi. The NBCC Award is the nation’s only literary award chosen entirely by book critics.

A collection of ‘folk poems’ said to have been picked up from alleys and fields around China, The Book of Songs also functioned ... love, and pain. Alamy Zhu Xi – Chinese philosopher ...