Kim Addonizio

A chestnut with a white blaze is scorching across the turf towards the finishing post.

Set in locations from dive bars to Montparnasse Cemetery, from an ancient Greek temple to a tourist shop in Assisi, Exit Opera explores the ever-vexing issues of time, mortality, love, and loss, and considers the roles of art and human connection. Whatever their nominal subject—jazz, zombies, Buddhism, Siberian tigers—these poems make for a compelling mix of humour and pain, difficulty...

New York Public Library Best Comics for Adults 2025 Most Anticipated Graphics Novels For Summer 2025 - Comics Beat On April 7, 1928, Maria Lani blew into Paris claiming to be a famous German actress and proceeded to seduce the cultural elite with her undeniable charisma and strangely enticing enigmatic aura. She persuaded fifty artists - Pierre Bonnard, Marc Chagall,...