Gerd Stern, who has died at 96, formed a lifelong bond with Allen Ginsberg and Carl Solomon. Ten years ago, he wrote about ...

Or triumphant. The poem’s most poignant feature may be the soldier’s optimism, his faith in what comes after hell. He insists ...

The unexamined life, the Greeks added, is not worth living. It can likewise warp and twist what our own eyes and ears are ...