Michael Hofmann

Images of Florida.

Bei Dao’s poetry of exile.

The British novelist Elizabeth Taylor was a master of awkward and complicated feelings.

On the protean genius of Robert Wyatt.

Mendeleev’s periodic table of the elements, I seem to remember, conjured the shape of an imperfect H. Ezra Pound claimed in Literary Essays that the lyric age (like the mathematical age) is seventeen to twenty-three, with the possibility of a second efflorescence, another ...