Thank you for signing up. For more from The Nation, check out our latest issue. In her 2003 Paris Review interview, Jorie Graham evokes a radiant image from her childhood in Rome: a “huge marble ...

Sagawa Chika, born Kawasaki Ai in 1911, died of stomach cancer in 1936, before her twenty-fifth birthday. Even with such a brief career, she was one of the most innovative and prominent avant-garde ...

Many a critic, determined to speak with clarity and certitude upon the dauntingly ambiguous subject of modern poetry in English—or upon modernism in general, for that matter—has found himself invoking ...

The most ephemeral aspect of literary style seems to be typography. Typography has often not been considered a proper part of poetry because of this precariousness. The visual layout of a poem is prey ...