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 ...

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.

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

It allows him to share the Robert Frost he’s always loved. “These days, all they know is a few quotes, a couple of poems,” Clapp said. “They may think he was a guy who wrote for Hallmark ...