Figuring (LA Times Book Prize Winner) Poetry_Gift_Guide whose ambition is to be

whose ambition is to be King of Northumbria and who leads a frightening army of wolf-warriors

Who cut off Medusa's head

who comes riding into their lives

Ginsberg’s poems are X-rays of a considerable part of American society during the last four decades

of making poetry from subtle suggestion

Figuring (LA Times Book Prize Winner) Poetry_Gift_Guide whose ambition is to beNAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY ESQUIRE AND BOOKPAGE Figuring explores the complexities of love and the human search for truth and meaning through the interconnected lives of several historical figures across four centuriesbeginning with the astronomer Johannes Kepler, who discovered the laws of planetary motion, and ending with the marine biologist and author Rachel Carson, who catalyzed the environmental movement. Stretching between these figures