Tuesday, August 08, 2006

Great Regulars: Imaginative details such as the buzzing

little finger, the three kinds of wire, unexpected adjectives like "diamondhead"--because they come to the reader partly through Billie's consciousness--create an intimacy, a shared viewpoint or imagining. The poet's art, by being so closely attentive, is generous to its desperate characters.

from Robert Pinsky: The Washington Post: Poet's Choice

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