For Instance

Just as Ciardi has never joined a group, so he has never asked that his poems be approved—they are simply there, written as they demanded to be written from inside their own experience of themselves. They are there—and they will not go away. John Ciardi published his first poem in Poetry magazine in 1939. The forty year since have been fruitful ones. His translation ofThe Divine Comedy is the definitive American rendering. His How Does a Poem Mean?, now in a new edition with revisions by Mi...