Rosanna Warren teaches in the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago. Her book of criticism, Fables of the Self: Studies in Lyric Poetry, came out in 2008. Her most recent books of poems are Departure (2003) and Ghost in a Red Hat (2011).
Nature’s Nature
May/June 2022
Inscription
and the roots of the fallen oak tree rear in flamboyant Gothic lozenges: earth sogged from days of rain so ghost pipes spring up, crooking their croziers, spectral parasites. I […]
Nature’s Nature
May/June 2022
Soseki’s Shrine
The mother bear stands on her hind legs to bat hard green apples from the boughs, while two cubs slide up the trunk as if black water should flow upward […]
Poetry
Summer 2012
At Villeneuve-les-Maguelone
On this strung-out strand where once the Saracens raided and the bishop defended, now only surf whirs in— tumble, soothe, and seethe of waves at a slow boil. We lie […]
Poetry
Winter 2011
Antipope
I like to think of the old schismatic pope, Benedict XIII, Pedro de Luna of Aragon, abandoned by all the kings who once paid him obeisance; his palace at Avignon […]
Poetry
Winter 2011
Scat
Coyotes yodel along the ridge at night in bacchanals. Smashed starlight litters the snow. Wind hones the mountain's silhouette to a dark blade. Streams wrestle in the shoulder-lock of ice: […]
In Memoriam
In Memoriam: John Hollander
John Hollander’s death has made a “gap in nature” like Shakespeare’s Cleopatra, and a gap in literature. The author of nineteen books of poems and of seven books of literary […]