Inspirational poems that’ll raise your spirits. Thousands of years ago, humankind figured out how to transform one of our greatest inventions into infinite beauty, and language gave way to poetry.

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Only as the Day is Long: New and Selected Poems Dorianne Laux. Norton, $26.95 (128p) ISBN 978-0-393-65233-8. Featuring selections from five books augmented by 20 new poems, this generous volume ...

A team of scientists in China turned to an unusual source to track the population of the Yangtze River’s finless porpoises: ancient poems. The writings samples written over the past 1,400 years ...