Tuesday, October 02, 2007

News at Eleven: In "My Brother's Grave," [Dorianne] Laux

conveys emotion indirectly, through vivid imagery--in her "pulling up/weeds from the roadside, . . ./tough, stringy stems/I had to chew off with my teeth,/the pitiful blossoms sodden, barely there"--and directly, in the final lines: "How could I have imagined then/how alone I would become."

from Salem Monthly: Poetry Collection Offers Simple Language

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