Olga Ravn’s “Fourth poem from the second continuation,” from her new novel, “My Work,” evokes motherhood as negative capability — the capacity, as John Keats described it, to dwell in “uncertainties, ...

The world is always failing. You could write a history of the end of days, and it would cover human existence from the beginning. If we didn’t fairly regularly fall into fits of certainty that ...

The syntax in this poem mimics the confusing and untidy emotional landscape of relationships. The first eight lines seem to intentionally reverse grammar, withholding the subject(s). A conventional ...