Tuesday, December 26, 2006

News at Eleven: Where in "Easter," a child's shame

receives full, scrupulous representation, in "Sully: Sixteen Months" the child has merely tripped on a toy only to be comforted immediately by his mother and grandfather. There are hazards to being around one's grandchildren, and one of them is that a person's poems will suffer. (Williams’s early poems about his children, by contrast, were dispassionate, honest and grave.)

from The New York Times: False Consolations

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