A critical examination of the nature and function of modern poetic expression

This is the truth of you. Because you are all I see. Because you are all I breathe. Because when I cannot find you, I am lost. Because when I’m with you, I am

Bloom surveys with majestic view the literature of the West from the Old Testament to Samuel Beckett. He provocatively rereads the Yahwist (or J) writer, Jeremi

First published by Wordsworth Editions 1999 and 2007. First published by Princeton University Press in 2016.

Grant Clauser's newest collection of poems The Magician's Handbook uses the surreal and the speculative to examine the beauty and hardship in the everyday. At o