Perhaps, as John Donne posited, “no man is an island ... (Well, maybe when it’s summertime again.) When the movie opens, Lourenço (Marco Pigossi) is awaiting his lover’s return, yet ...

Finally a biography of John Donne that captures his eccentricities, his contradictions, his fabulous twists and turns, his trickiness, and—as one critic has put it—his thinking “awry and squint.” ...