At once gorgeous and grotesque, Nevermore explores the events that shape Poe’s character and career, blurring the line between fact and fiction–after all, as Poe himself writes, “All that we ...

“Nevermore” opens shortly before Poe’s death ... but she died after 11 years of marriage. A lot of Poe’s poetry is about men pining after beautiful dead women, like in “The Raven.” ...

to lecture about American poetry and read his poem “The Raven.” (You know the one — with the refrain “Quoth the Raven ‘Nevermore.’”) Kerouac may claim the title of Lowell’s ...