The Poem is You by Stephen Burt Helen Burke Rees-Jones’s poem imagines Helen after

Rees-Jones’s poem imagines Helen after Edward’s death

Poetical Works collects all the work he wishes to publish into a single volume

these 300 pages are filled with Helen’s illustrations

including Eoghan Ó Tuairisc’s anguished response to the bombing of Hiroshima

and previous accounts of composition dates have been corrected

The Poem is You by Stephen Burt Helen Burke Rees-Jones’s poem imagines Helen afterContemporary American poetry has plenty to offer new readers, and plenty more for those who already follow it. Yet its difficultyand sheer varietyleaves many readers puzzled or overwhelmed. The critic, scholar, and poet Stephen Burt sets out to help. Beginning in the early 1980s, where critical consensus ends, Burt canvasses American poetry of the past four decades, from the headline making urgency of Claudia Rankines Citizen to the stark pathos of