Keeper of Limits: The Mrs. Cavendish Poems

A Pulitzer Prize-winning author details an unconsummated love affair that sustains political, philosophical, and sexual interest over a lifetime.

The truth is always different
from what anyone says out loud,
but who really cares? Not I, said the man
I chose to be, nor I nor I nor I—
among the many of us she left teetering.

Stephen Dunn is a Pulitzer Prize winner and the author of seventeen collections o...