The Word that Causes Death’s Defeat: Poems of Memory by Anna Akhmatova, Translated by Nancy K. Anderson (Yale, 352 pp., $30) The Russian poet Anna Akhmatova stands at the pinnacle of the mountain ...
A framed poster of a stamp depicting Langston Hughes, who wrote some of the best poems in American history. Poetry provides the perfect way to indulge in the escapism of reading without the commitment ...