... Wordsworth book, which would come to make his reputation. It would mark a signal turn in the new Romantic scholarship, transforming Wordsworth from a decorous nature poet and Victorian icon into a probing, dark modern poet of consciousness. Soon after the book came out I began to work on a thesis on Keats...

... that affirm the sacredness of Creation and unite mysticism with prophecy. In his latest book Fox explores the life of Thomas Merton, the influential 20th-century contemplative, writer, poet, and activist who did much to put Christianity in dialogue with the world’s religions and to challenge the social...

... A Poet Encounters “the Horror” in Rwanda, Eastern Congo, and Palestine/lsrael and Congo, Eastern Rwanda, in Horror” “the Encounters A Poet...

...Emily Warn RADICAL POETICS AND SECULAR JEWISH CULTURE Edited by Paul Miller Stephen Morris Daniel University of Alabama Press , 2010 27 6 2011 Copyright © Tikkun magazine 2011 Don’t let the title dissuade you from reading this provocative book. The poets...

...David Wojahn Army Cats , by Sleigh Tom , Graywolf Press , 2011 Copyright © Tikkun magazine 2013 I n A rmy C ats , American poet Tom Sleigh takes on the topic of the 2007 Lebanese Civil War not as an excuse for wanton journalistic rubbernecking, but as a catalyst...

...C. K. Williams Copyright © Tikkun magazine 2008 The Courage of Poets and Artists by C. K. Williams T M IG H T B E A G R E E A B L E F O R O N C E T O T U R N F R O M T H E head­ lines, from the tragedies and the madnesses...

...RODGER KAMENETZ The Poetry of Yehuda Amichai , Ed. Alter Robert , Farrar, Straus and Giroux , 2015 Copyright © 2017 Tikkun magazine 2017 Illustration by Olivia Wise Illustration by Olivia Wise W hat makes poets great to begin with is a living presence we feel...

... Bloom’s ‘anxiety of influence,’ more primitive.” On the dust jacket for the Whitman monograph, Michael Robertson calls Williams “one of our most Whitman-esque poets.” The idea of Williams as a Whitman for our time is not wrong, but it is incomplete and potentially misleading. Yes, Williams arrived...

...; and he founded the Sheep Meadow Press, dedicated to poetry in English and translation. He’s enjoyed friendships with Dylan Thomas, Theodore Roethke, Robert Lowell, Stanley Kunitz, Yehuda Amichai, W.S. Merwin, and many others. But his work as a poet has received less attention than his activity...

... work is especially puzzling. Few American poets of the boomer generation have explored the interstices of public and personal history as deeply and urgently as has Balakian, and his significance as a poet of social consciousness is complemented by his work in other genres. The Burning Tigris , his...

...David Shaddock Copyright © Tikkun magazine 2013 T win commitments to simultaneously praise the beauty of the world and witness its horrors lie at the heart of poet Denise Levertov’s writing, activism, and spiritual path. One moment she would be deep in serious conversation...

...PHILIP TERMAN Swimming in the Rain: New and Selected Poems 1980–2015 , by Bloch Chana , Autumn House Press , 2015 Copyright © Tikkun magazine 2015 A child of immigrant parents who was raised in an observant Jewish household, poet Chana Bloch has absorbed the details of her...

... fiction Natan Zach, Tuvia Ruebner, and Dahlia Over. and nonfiction. His approach to writing, in Rabikovitch, along with young rebels and Do unto Amalek any genre, is perhaps best articulated in his poets lesser known (especially outside what Amalek did to you own words, from the essay “Recipe...

... poets, a tetralogy of volumes that explores each of the cardinal elements — earth, air, water, and fire — as a material stage on which we play out our emotional, political, and environmental machinations. A quarter of the way through her last entry in the tetralogy, Seasonal Works with Letters...