The Ocean, the Bird, and the Scholar by Helen Vendler #Translatedpoetry from the headline-making urgency of

from the headline-making urgency of Claudia Rankine’s Citizen to the stark pathos of Louise Glück

but his poetry enrichingly alludes to and echoes the writings of many others

Hot White Andy

even though he has lain in a peat bog since the start of the Iron Age

including family

The Ocean, the Bird, and the Scholar by Helen Vendler #Translatedpoetry from the headline-making urgency ofOne of our foremost commentators on poetry examines the work of a broad range of nineteenth and twentieth century English, Irish, and American poets. The Ocean, the Bird, and the Scholar gathers two decades worth of Helen Vendlers essays, book reviews, and occasional proseincluding the 2004 Jefferson Lecturein a single volume. Taken together, they serve as a reminder that if the arts and the patina of culture they cast over the world were deleted, we