Tuesday, September 05, 2006

Great Regulars: In many American poems,

the poet makes a personal appearance and offers us a revealing monologue from center stage, but there are lots of fine poems in which the poet, a stranger in a strange place, observes the lives of others from a distance and imagines her way into them. This poem by Lita Hooper is a good example of this kind of writing.

from Ted Kooser: American Life in Poetry: Column 075 (pdf)

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