Wildness often appears abruptly in the city, confined to fenced gardens or small parks between apartment buildings. The Arcadia Project: North American Postmodern Pastoral redraws the boundaries between the wild and the urban, language and object, human and inhuman—and dwells … Continue reading →

Last week the Pulitzer committee chose Tracy K. Smith’s Life on Mars for its poetry prize. Not only was the award the most distinguished recognition of Smith’s poetry yet, it was also the first given to a book published by … Continue reading →