Molly Peacock is a poet of raw grace, metaphysical impulse, and daring confessional candor who courts complexity both in the supple bending of closed forms and in the complex emotional states those forms allow her to express. Dense, sensuous, intimate,...

Molly Peacock's vital and intimate poetry stakes its imaginative reach on what she calls "the drive for what is real, deeper than the brain's detail: the drive to feel" ("Desire," Raw Heaven , 1984). In three volumes where the play of predictability...

Rebecca Solnit, the bestselling author of 10 books, will read from her latest book, "Storming the Gates of Paradise: Landscapes for Politics," at the end of the month as part of an art and ecology program at Woodland Pattern Book Center. Solnit, who...

Well, sometimes we just grew desperate For a simple word like True. So few people embodied it anymore. When you found one who did You wanted to circle round, like a campfire, In the dark, in the very very...