Davison calls Hass’s “Heroic Simile,” first published in our October 1976 issue, a “masterpiece.” In the poem, Hass draws on moments of heroism from classical and modern epics to find ...

Albert Goldbarth is the author of more than twenty books of poetry and has won numerous awards, including two National Book Critics Circle Awards. He is a professor of humanities at Wichita State ...

My first published poetry collection, Water Sings Blue, was about the ocean and its creatures. As publication drew near, my editor wanted me to change a simile (comparison) in my shark poem.

This simile suggests the waving movement of the banners but it also hints at a familiar, united and friendly atmosphere at the protest. There are two examples of similes in Robert Burns' poem A ...

He would have liked the Unreasoning Oyster. A version of this article appears in print on March 7, 2010, Section WK, Page 2 of the New York edition with the headline: Mad as a Hatter, Sane as a ...

Davison calls Hass’s “Heroic Simile,” first published in our October 1976 issue, a “masterpiece.” In the poem, Hass draws on moments of heroism from classical and modern epics to find ...