With these relatively short poems, you'll understand why poets are peerless when it comes to putting our deepest emotions ...

Poems are such versatile things. They can be as concise as a well-written line but also long enough to fill an entire book.

By force of her imagination and skill, Emily Dickinson could take the measure of solitude, opprobrium and even damnation.

The poem is so vivid, so specific, that the photograph takes shape in your mind’s eye as you read. You imagine something motherly in the girl’s posture; something childlike in the father’s ...