If you have ever been in the enviable position of considering the difference between happiness and joy, you might find yourself nodding when the latter is characterized as being wilder and more ...

In Joy Harjo’s 2015 poetry collection, "Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings," there’s a poem called “Rabbit Is Up to Tricks” about the origin of human folly. “Rabbit” molds and breathes life into the ...

Simone Weil says in a passage quoted in this anthology, “A test of what is real is that it is hard and rough. Joys are found in it.” Using Weil’s definition, this is the most real collection of poetry ...

In the church where I was raised, adults made a sharp distinction between joy and happiness. Happiness felt good, but it was temporary, and because it was temporary, there was something about it not ...

If I were to choose one word to describe this story it would the word joy. Joy because at every turn, I witnessed joy. Edna Bishop’s laugh -- joyful. The dresses she makes, her creations, are bringing ...

Remember in the first place that this is not an anthology of modern poetry, so called, or of recent Poetry in general. It is not meant to be, if we may believe the statement on the cover that Mrs.

Art is long and life is short. Or is it the other way around? On the evidence of In the Crevice of Time: New and Collected Poems,[1] a 258-page volume that spans sixty years of poetic productivity, ...

Prologue -- Map of the Trail of Tears -- Break My Heart -- My grandfather Monahwee -- Exile of Memory -- Granddaughters -- The Fight -- Directions to You -- Seven Generations -- In 1990 a congress -- ...

CIARAN CARSON is one of the most accomplished among the astonishing number of formidable poets who have issued from Ulster over the last three generations. In his elegy on the death of Yeats, Auden ...