Helen Vendler is the Arthur Kingsley Porter University Professor in the Department of English at Harvard. Her most recent book, Dickinson: Selected Poems and Commentaries, was published last year. (November 2011)
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Defending an Anthology
December 22, 2011
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Are These the Poems to Remember?
November 24, 2011
The Penguin Anthology of Twentieth-Century American Poetry
edited and with an introduction by Rita Dove
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Beauty, Violence, and the Gods
October 27, 2011
The Wrecking Light
by Robin Robertson
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The Art of Flamingo Watching
December 23, 2010
The Best of It: New and Selected Poems
by Kay Ryan
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Defender of the Earth
March 26, 2009
The Shadow of Sirius
by W.S. Merwin
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The Friendship of Cal and Elizabeth
November 20, 2008
Words in Air: The Complete Correspondence Between Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell
edited by Thomas Travisano with Saskia Hamilton
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‘The Poets Light…’: An Exchange
June 26, 2008
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‘A Powerful, Strong Torrent’
June 12, 2008
Sea Change
by Jorie Graham
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Snatched from the Air
March 6, 2008
Littlefoot: A Poem
by Charles Wright
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From the Homicidal to the Ecstatic
October 11, 2007
God’s Silence
by Franz Wright
Earlier Poems
by Franz Wright
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The Democratic Eye
March 29, 2007
A Worldly Country: New Poems
by John Ashbery
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Keats & Helen Keller
April 29, 2004
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Leo’s ‘Last Supper’
November 7, 2002
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‘A Lament in Three Voices’
May 31, 2001
A Treatise on Poetry Czeslaw Milosz, translated from the Polish by the author and Robert Hass
Milosz’s ABC’s Czeslaw Milosz, translated from the Polish by Madeline Levine
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‘Catching a Pig on the Farm’
March 8, 2001
The Wick of Memory: New and Selected Poems Dave Smith
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Life Itself
February 24, 2000
Collected Poems, 1948-1998
by D.J. Enright
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‘The Voice at 3 AM’
June 10, 1999
Jackstraws
by Charles Simic
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Staring Through the Stitches
October 8, 1998
Poems New and Collected, 1957-1997
by Wislawa Szymborska, translated by Stanislaw Baranczak, by Clare Cavanagh
New Collected Poems
by Tomas Tranströmer, translated by Robin Fulton
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‘Ice and Fire and Solitude’
December 4, 1997
Wallace Stevens: Collected Poetry and Prose by Frank Kermode elected and annotated by, by Joan Richardson
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Anglo-Celtic Attitudes
November 6, 1997
Woman Police Officer in Elevator by James Lasdun
Rest for the Wicked by Glyn Maxwell
Selected Poems 1968-1986 by Paul Muldoon
The Annals of Chile by Paul Muldoon
Paul Muldoon by Tim Kendall
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The Truth Teller
September 19, 1996
Becoming Modern: The Life of Mina Loy by Carolyn Burke
The Lost Lunar Baedeker by Mina Loy, edited by Roger L. Conover
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Worth a Thousand Words?
May 9, 1996
The Gazer’s Spirit: Poems Speaking to Silent Works of Art
by John Hollander
On the Laws of the Poetic Art (The A.W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts, 1992) Bollingen Series XXXV: 41 by Anthony Hecht
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Chronicles of Love and Loss
May 11, 1995
A Scattering of Salts by James Merrill
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Death of a Soul
October 20, 1994
Scar Tissue by Michael Ignatieff
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Breakfast with Miss Bishop
June 9, 1994
One Art: Letters by Elizabeth Bishop, selected and edited by Robert Giroux
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Laura (Riding) Jackson
February 3, 1994
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The White Goddess!
November 18, 1993
First Awakenings: The Early Poems of Laura Riding
edited by Elizabeth Friedmann, by Alan J. Clark, by Robert Nye
The Word ‘Woman’ and Other Related Writings by Laura (Riding) Jackson, edited by Elizabeth Friedmann, edited by Alan J. Clark
Four Unposted Letters to Catherine
by Laura Riding, afterword by Elizabeth Friedmann, by Alan J. Clark
In Extremis: The Life of Laura Riding by Deborah Baker
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Tireless Messenger
August 13, 1992
Provinces: Poems 19871991 by Czeslaw Milosz. Translated by the author, translated by Robert Hass
Beginning With My Streets: Essays and Recollections by Czeslaw Milosz, translated by Madeline G. Levine
The Poet’s Work: An Introduction to Czeslaw Milosz by Leonard Nathan, by Arthur Quinn
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Mapping the Air
November 21, 1991
An Atlas of the Difficult World: Poems 19881991 by Adrienne Rich
Region of Unlikeness by Jorie Graham
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Breath of Art
March 28, 1991
The Dead Girl
by Melanie Thernstrom
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Feminism and Literature: An Exchange
August 16, 1990
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Feminism and Literature
May 31, 1990
Beyond Feminist Aesthetics: Feminist Literature and Social Change by Rita Felski
Women, Class, and the Feminist Imagination: A Socialist-Feminist Reader edited by Karen V. Hansen, edited by Ilene J. Philipson
Feminism/Postmodernism edited and with an introduction by Linda J. Nicholson
Women Writers of the Seventeenth Century
edited by Katharina M. Wilson, edited by Frank J. Warnke
Eighteenth-Century Women Poets: An Oxford Anthology
edited by Roger Lonsdale
Hamlet’s Mother and Other Women
by Carolyn G. Heilbrun
No Man’s Land: The Place of the Woman Writer in the Twentieth Century Vol. I, The War of the Words Vol. II, Sexchanges by Sandra Gilbert, by Susan Gubar
Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson by Camille Paglia
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Four Prized Poets
August 17, 1989
Blackbird Bye Bye by April Bernard
The Night Parade by Edward Hirsch
Acrimony by Michael Hofmann
The Daylight Moon and Other Poems by Les A. Murray
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The Explorer
April 27, 1989
I. A. Richards: His Life and Work by John Paul Russo
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New York Pastoral
September 29, 1988
Selected Poems by James Schuyler
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Second Thoughts
April 28, 1988
The Haw Lantern by Seamus Heaney
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Reading Wallace Stevens
May 7, 1987
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The Hunting of Wallace Stevens
November 20, 1986
Wallace Stevens: A Mythology of Self by Milton J. Bates
Wallace Stevens: A Poet’s Growth
by George Lensing
Wallace Stevens: The Early Years, 18791923 by Joan Richardson
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It Wasn’t Knopf
November 6, 1986
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In the Zoo of the New
October 23, 1986
The Triumph of Achilles by Louise Glück
Local Time by Stephen Dunn
Cats of the Temple by Brad Leithauser
Thomas and Beulah by Rita Dove
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The Medley Is the Message
May 8, 1986
The Rustle of Language
by Roland Barthes, translated by Richard Howard
The Responsibility of Forms: Critical Essays on Music, Art, and Representation
by Roland Barthes, translated by Richard Howard
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Looking for Poetry in America
November 7, 1985
Twentieth Century Pleasures: Prose on Poetry by Robert Hass
Local Assays: On Contemporary American Poetry by Dave Smith
American Poetry and Culture, 19451980 by Robert von Hallberg
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Dear Delmore,
April 11, 1985
Letters of Delmore Schwartz selected and edited by Robert Phillips, foreword by Karl Shapiro
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Making It New
June 14, 1984
A Wave
by John Ashbery
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Bishop’s Prose Gift
March 29, 1984
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Life Studies
February 16, 1984
The Collected Prose by Elizabeth Bishop, edited, with an introduction, by Robert Giroux
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American Poet
December 2, 1982
Robert Lowell: A Biography by Ian Hamilton
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The Creeping Griffon
September 23, 1982
Hundreds of Fireflies
by Brad Leithauser
Monolithos: Poems, 1962 and 1982 by Jack Gilbert
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Poet of Two Worlds
March 4, 1982
The Fortunate Traveller
by Derek Walcott
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All Too Real
December 17, 1981
Work, for the Night Is Coming by Jared Carter
A Wild Patience Has Taken Me This Far: Poems 1978-1981 by Adrienne Rich
One for the Rose by Philip Levine
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Sociable Comets
July 16, 1981
Shadow Train by John Ashbery
Descending Figure by Louise Glück
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A Room of Her Own
February 19, 1981
Women Writers and Poetic Identity: Dorothy Wordsworth, Emily Brontë, and Emily Dickinson by Margaret Homans
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Trouble at B.U. (cont’d)
November 6, 1980
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Academic Freedom at BU
June 12, 1980
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The Elusiveness of a Life
April 17, 1980
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Poet’s Gallery
February 7, 1980
Dreams in the Mirror: A Biography of E.E. Cummings by Richard S. Kennedy
Frank O’Hara: Poet Among Painters by Marjorie Perloff
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James Merrill’s Myth: An Interview
May 3, 1979
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Lowell Criticism
March 22, 1979
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Pudding Stone
February 8, 1979
Robert Lowell: Life and Art by Steven Gould Axelrod
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The Wonder Man
November 24, 1977
I Never Told Anybody: Teaching Poetry Writing in a Nursing Home by Kenneth Koch
The Duplications by Kenneth Koch
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Myths for Mothers
September 30, 1976
Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution by Adrienne Rich
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News from the Muse
March 18, 1976
Divine Comedies by James Merrill
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Art, Life & Dr. Williams
November 13, 1975
William Carlos Williams: The Knack of Survival in America by Robert Coles
William Carlos Williams: Poet from Jersey by Reed Whittemore
The Embodiment of Knowledge
by William Carlos Williams, edited by Ron Loewinsohn