Mount Lebanon

"Kirchwey shares the classicist's vision of poetry as a living tradition that extends from antiquity to the present . . . and his poems in this issue are about violent love and transcendent longing, the great romantic themes." -Langdon Hammer, The American Scholar "One of the very best poets of his generation." -John Hollander "The poems shimmer with intelligence, wit, and delicacy; and yet at times they resonate with the deepest and most stirring of feelings." -Anthony Hecht Mount Lebanon is a