Seamus Heaney’s love-poem to marriage, The Skunk, combines exile and erotica, moving from an American wilderness image ...

Closely aligned to the theme of romantic love is that of desire, and across the centuries poets have written about the ...

Her use of simple yet evocative language, such as “ghosts of fingerprints on the mirror,” captures the haunting presence of absence. This poem reminds readers of the enduring impact of love ...

In 1948, after three years studying in the U.S. with Juan Ramón Jiménez, Claribel Alegría published her ... poems bear witness to the determination of those who would recognize their own loneliness ...