An interview with Emily Wilson discusses the importance of the 'Iliad' to both young and old readers, its relationship with faith and what lessons we can glean about essential human nature from such an ancient text.

my shiver-feathered fly like prayer arcing sinking through the air

May the poem, grasped and penned, be the Grail sustaining hearts healed for a spell

James Dickey's public persona of fighter pilot, champion athlete and hard-drinking woodsman who wrote of “country surrealism” gave him an everyman appeal, even as he was perhaps the nation's greatest poetic talent.

proclaiming This is God loving me, even in defeat.

Though it felt wrong to sleep, I slept,      and when I woke and remembered, I wept.