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Poems inspire our trust, argues James Longenbach in this bracing work, because they don't necessarily ask to be trusted. Theirs is the language of sel...
Fleet River traces the journey of two travelers through landscapes earthly and otherworldly, following the river as it turns, dips underground, then r...
Pound, Yeats, and Modernism
Although readers of modern literature have always known about the collaboration of W.B. Yeats and Ezra Pound, the crucial winters these poets spent li...
Threshold is an extraordinary first collection that explores the shifting spaces between differing states of human experience. James Longenbach's poem...
A National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist Earthling confronts our deepest fears in clear and haunting language, from "a poet of extraordinary gift...
A comprehensive guide to writing or reading poetry, by “one of our most lucid and important critics” (American Academy of Arts and Letters). Why d...
Reading a diverse range of poets - John Ashbery, Elizabeth Bishop, Amy Clampitt, Jorie Graham, Richard Howard, Randall Jarrell, Robert Lowell, Robert ...
"Poetry is the sound of language organized in lines." James Longenbach opens The Art of the Poetic Line with that essential statement. Through a range...
Pound, Eliot, and the Sense of the Past
By thoroughly examining T. S. Eliot and Ezra Pound collected and uncollected writings, James Longenbach presents their understandings of the philosoph...
The final collection of new poems from acclaimed poet James Longenbach, together with two previous volumes that confront mortality. Standing on the sh...
In lucid, elegant poems, Forever contemplates love against the pressing question of mortality after a diagnosis of cancer. Praised for a voice with "t...
An illuminating look at the many forms of poetry's essential excellence by James Longenbach, a writer with "an ear as subtle and assured as any Americ...
From Second Draft: What other people learn From birth, Betrayal, I learned late. My soul perched On an olive branch Combing itself, Waving its plumes....
"The world in these poems, rendered from memory on a mythic tide, is at once palpable and numinous." —On the Seawall “Tightly conceived, elegantly...