Tuesday, August 22, 2006

Great Regulars: That quiet, rapt attention

has a lot to do with writing: The sunlight spills like "gilt/on onionskin"--which I take to mean both the actual skin of an onion and the thin paper named after it. And [Peter] Balakian's final line, again using the verb "spill," brings Thoreau's astringent kind of whimsy to the writer's urge or need to write.

from Robert Pinsky: The Washington Post: Poet's Choice (August 13th)

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