Our columnist approves. By Elisa Gabbert Elisa Gabbert’s collections of poetry and essays include, most recently, “Normal Distance” and “Any Person Is the Only Self.” Her On Poetry ...

Author Tess Livingstone (r) and the cover of her biography of Cardinal George Pell (photo: Courtesy of Carmel Communications and Ignatius Press) Edward Pentin Books January 9, 2025 Two years after ...

and he gives us a broad sense of the kind of man behind the poem, dipping into biography again and again, but never systematically. There is nothing systematic about his book, which consists of bits ...