Mercury Dressing

This beautiful collection from J. D. McClatchy holds up a mirror to the soul, considering heroic and human figures in poems that “balance mandarin wit with enormous learning, a fully twenty-first-century sensibility and a deft use of the demotic” (Bookpage).

J. D. McClatchy is the author of six books of poems, three collections of prose, and thirteen opera libretti. A teacher at Yale University and the editor of The Yale Review, McClatchy is also the president of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.