For our series Making of a Poem, we’re asking poets and translators to dissect the poems they’ve published in our pages.

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Our critic A.O. Scott forages the world’s most poetic fruit. Isabella Cotier By A.O. Scott A.O. Scott, a critic at large for the Book Review, recorded the poetry readings that appear in this piece.

The former U.S. Poet Laureate, who has a new book out this week, recommends five texts that interrogate how we narrate the ...

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