Matthew Boudway

Second Space by Czeslaw Milosz Translated by the author and Robert Hass Ecco. 102 pp. $23.95 Second Space is the final collection of poems by the great Polish poet Czeslaw Milosz, who died last August at the age of 93. A short book, it nevertheless finds room for all of Milosz’s most important . . . . Continue Reading »

In that darkness there could be no hope” Not merely light withdrawn but light refused. The ashen trees had dropped, not lost, their leaves, That green a smothering burden they abhorred. The people in that place were all too old, The children most of all, who wore their youth As if it were a . . . . Continue Reading »

The Catholic Revival in English Literature by Ian Ker is not, as its title suggests, the study of a literary movement. It is instead a collection of six free-standing essays about six very different writers: John Henry Newman, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Hilaire Belloc, G. K. Chesterton, Graham Greene, . . . . Continue Reading »