Simone Weil says in a passage quoted in this anthology, “A test of what is real is that it is hard and rough. Joys are found in it.” Using Weil’s definition, this is the most real collection of poetry ...

If you have ever been in the enviable position of considering the difference between happiness and joy, you might find yourself nodding when the latter is characterized as being wilder and more ...

NORTH CAROLINA, NC, UNITED STATES, November 19, 2025 /EINPresswire.com/ -- Poems for Praise, Comfort, and Joy: Volume I by Ronald Jirovec, published by Kravitz & Sons ...

William Butler Yeats’ “The Lake Isle of Innisfree” is about the allure of an imagined refuge. The poem’s distressed urban speaker fantasizes about fleeing the city and retreating to an idyllic Irish ...

In the church where I was raised, adults made a sharp distinction between joy and happiness. Happiness felt good, but it was temporary, and because it was temporary, there was something about it not ...

CIARAN CARSON is one of the most accomplished among the astonishing number of formidable poets who have issued from Ulster over the last three generations. In his elegy on the death of Yeats, Auden ...

The daughter of a Native American father and a mother both Native American and white, poet Joy Harjo knew early the pain caused by prejudice. “I started writing to save my life,” she says. It was a ...