These women, along with 96 inspirational others, have shared the private stories behind the poems that get under their skin in a beautiful and timeless book, Poems That Make Grown Women Cry.

Few poems have had such an immediate and widespread influence. The book was translated into Italian ... Lindsay’s story is a sad one. Born of deeply religious parents in 1879, Lindsay showed ...

The book features poems (about 100 of them ... I really liked listing things out if I felt depressed or sad; I would write a list of all things that were bothering me, so I could analyze them.

At intervals, the book includes tankas — a traditional ... because I think it’s really hard to pull off really sad poems by being sad. I just went in the other direction, really stark and ...

Poetry as an art form can be learnt and nurtured as a skill. We have curated a list of four books to read to learn poetry. Read on for the listicle.

In the clean, clear lyrics of his second book, Jericho Brown, who was born in Louisiana and formerly worked as speechwriter for a New Orleans mayor, laments, with no small sense of sad resignation ...

In the book’s first poem, “The Twentieth Century in Retirement ... The reader may or may not know the profoundly sad story of Bruno Schulz: Either way, our knowledge, like mercy, is ...

The book was slow to have an impact but eventually ... the Culture section of the print edition under the headline “A sad poem of American life” ...

And frankly, we're all sad about those days that are gone by ... a little more clearly and vividly than in the other poems in the book "New Hampshire." LIMBONG: Jay Parini is a poet, novelist ...

“Pearl,” rendered in complex rhymed stanzas, is a sad poem, an elegy on the death of a young girl. His new translation, “The Owl and the Nightingale,” is a venture of a different kin ...

In fact, after his death, his second wife had quite a job to track down as many poems as she could. There are other books, one by Oliver Friggieri, which focus on his poetry in a structured way.