Franz Wright, who wrote with raw lyricism about inner demons, death ... “Franz lived for poetry — at times it seemed it kept him alive — and he managed to write poems in which the choice ...

Poetry is about myths, love, life, and loss. Poetry can be used to heal oneself, make peace with inner demons, and practice self-love when done correctly. Smoking frames is a great book for everyone ...

Both poems seethe with a boiling darkness just under the surface ... But the darkness was never very far away and the inner demons persisted. A few years after these informal home movies, she threw ...

Written in Latin, Psychomachia is a short epic poem. It describes the battle in us all to slay our inner demons and win peace of mind. And the remarkable thing is that in the poem, the combatants ...

McElroy has published many collections of verse. The poems in “Sleeping with the Moon” follow the waxing and waning inner life of a person not unlike the rest of us, only far more able to ...

The strange transformation of Khadim Ali into a demon might be traced back to when ... Shahnamah (The Book of Kings), a 10th century epic poem about the mythical history of Persia, which his ...