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 ...

Words need to "audition" for the chance to be in a sentence, poet Kate Coombs writes. In a poem, they need to be perfect for ...

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 ...

If he could, he’d say: From light to light the night-bound day’s impassioned traffic beats a strung-out simile of surf’s reproof to sailor’s joy at landfall. What he said was: “Not. Home ...

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 ...