The fence had been built in a shadowbox style, and the gaps between the boards gave reaching vines room for twisting. Their ...

Sometimes things live up to their name. Take Robert Frost. The four-time-Pulitzer-winning poet is known for his wintry poem "Stopping By Woods On A Snowy Evening." (SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING ...

Up they float into bad-poem limbo, where their bad lines, loose and weedlike, drift and coil and tangle with one another ...

There are no revelations in Love and Need, but Plunkett excels at bringing the poems to life with contextual details (such as the ones above) and literary resonances. Robert Frost in 1962.