Adam Plunkett

Adam Plunkett's essays and reviews have appeared in The New Republic, n+1, Bookforum, and elsewhere. He lives in New York City.

Languages of Myth and Art and Religion

Louise Glück’s most ambitious book of poems yet....

POETRY

The Risks of Simplicity: McGriff's New Poems

ldquo;O! I DO LOVE THEE, meek Simplicity!” So says the simpleton voice in Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s satirical ode to plainspoken rhetoric, “To Simplicity.” Simpleton is guilty of a lot — his idea of chiasmus is &...

Bodies in Pain

The poems suspend different voices, different recognizable patterns of emotion and idiom, and stretch the lines out to include every voice....

POETRY