The speaker of The Philosopher's Window and Other Poems, Allen Grossman tells us, is "an old man compelled by the insistent questioning of the children to expla

A new, breakthrough collection by one of our most disturbing and humanly gifted poets (Harold Bloom).

The extent to which American poetry reinvented itself after World War II is a testament to the changing social, political and economic landscape of twentieth-ce

The Encyclopedia of American Poetry: The Twentieth Century contains over 400 entries that treat a broad range of individual poets and poems, along with many art