Tuesday, September 04, 2007

Great Regulars: The poem has a cheering quality

that might at first be invisible, or mystifying: How can this account of a death from cancer have a kind of smiling, humane element? The answer to that question is in the gift of imagination: in this case, literally a gift, the final scene being given by the poet to the dying man's children, or to us readers.

from Robert Pinsky: The Washington Post: Poet's Choice

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