Detroit, the Spanish Civil War, and the yearning for a perfect society
Plus Sacha Baron Cohen’s Yom Kippur service, and more in the news
The late U.S. poet laureate on growing up Jewish in Detroit, playing tennis in verse, and hanging on to his memories, which are the source of his art
Straightforward or elliptical, poetry needn’t be hard
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