Free Beacon Temple Cone

Temple Cone is the author of four books of poetry, of which the most recently published is guzzle, from March Street Press. He has also published six poetry chapbooks, as well as reference works on Cormac McCarthy's The Road, Walt Whitman, and 20th-Century American Poetry. He is a professor of English at the U.S. Naval Academy.


Plath’s Poetry—Minus the Pathology

REVIEW: ‘I Am the Arrow: The Life and Art of Sylvia Plath in Six Poems’ by Sarah Ruden

Johnny Cash

Slurry and Whiskey

Review: Johnny Cash, 'Forever Words'

The Mountain and the Encircling Mist

Review: Rachel Corbett, 'You Must Change Your Life: The Story of Rainer Maria Rilke and Auguste Rodin'

Sharon Olds

The Firebreak We’ve Been Waiting For

Review: Sharon Olds, 'Odes'

Maximilian Uriarte

‘I Hope You Find What You’re Looking For’

Review: Maximilian Uriarte, ‘The White Donkey: Terminal Lance’

Seamus Heaney

The Bough That Does Not Graft

Review: Seamus Heaney, trans., ‘Aeneid Book VI’

The Scarcity of Annie Dillard

Review: Annie Dillard, ‘The Abundance: Narrative Essays New and Old’

‘I Can Hear Death Pronounce My Name’

Review: Christopher Logue, ‘War Music: An Account of Homer’s Iliad’

Wislawa Szymborska

‘Hatred Knows How to Make Beauty’

Review: Wislawa Szymborska, ‘Map: Collected and Last Poems’

Exposed in a Southern Lens

Review: Sally Mann, ‘Hold Still’