This collection brings together 40 years of essays about poetry and literature written by Emily Grosholz. The first section includes essays about some of her fa

Although readers of prose fiction sometimes find descriptive passages superfluous or boring, description itself is often the most important aspect of a poem. Th

Heart Beats is an anthology of poetry about the various aspects of what makes us tick or makes a heart-beat.This is about love, life, happiness, anything that m

A Defense of Poetry argues that literature can be defined - pragmatist and historicist arguments notwithstanding - and that in its definition its unique value c