Tuesday, September 05, 2006

(New to) Great Regulars: [W. D. Snodgrass's] penchant

for sentence fragments (no other major poet of our time relies so heavily on them) can also be off-putting. At times, the result is wonderfully dramatic--as of a door closing abruptly in the faces of readers more nosily inquisitive than they should be.

from Brad Leithauser: The New York Times: 'The Peaks of Occult, Calm Passion'

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