Literary Nonfiction. Poetry. Lawrence Raab has been revered as a quietly magnificent poet. As friends and students have long known, for decades he's also been a virtuosic teacher. In this first collection of his contemplative essays, Raab ponders works that keep mattering to him as a working writer, with fresh considerations of Edwin Arlington Robinson and Thomas Hardy, Wislawa Szymborska, Ben Jonson, Henry James, Gertrude Stein, Lewis Carroll, the...