Great Regulars: For Plumly, who was born in Ohio

in 1939, the luminous moments of a poet's personal history are always gestating in the imagination. "Silent Heart Attack" is a wonderful example of this sort of gestation. The poem begins with an assessment about silence as "another kind of violence"--a provocative claim, to be sure, and one that asks the question, what is the nature of silence exactly?

from David Biespiel: The Oregonian: Poetry

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