James Breslin’s “Hummingbird and Other New & Collected Poems” is kind of a peculiar book. On the one hand, most of its 60 or so poems are phrased in a direct, disarming, almost blunt style that ...
In his last two books, Christopher Benfey, a prolific critic, poet and professor of literature at Mount Holyoke, cultivated an unorthodox style of historical storytelling that spurns the traditional ...