“When the bloom was on the clover, and the blue was in the sky, and my happy heart brimmed over, in the days gone by.” Ted Jacobs is doing something that may seem quixotic in this age of slick ...

In this installment of Lyric Nation, Susan Stewart reads “There Is No Natural Death,” first published in the June 25, 2007 issue of The Nation, “The Forest” and “The Owl.” These poems ...