echoes the High Modernist capital-T Tradition that bred both Yeats and Eliot (about whom Grossman has written). He leavens his work with the hilarity of honky tonk and the Borscht Belt. "The Piano Player Explains Himself" is an ars poetica, in which the piano is an actual Messiah--as poetry is, I think, when it's played right.from Mary Karr: The Washington Post: Poet's Choice
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You might enjoy my essay on that great Grossman poem -- "The Piano Player Explains Himself" -- in Dan Morris' excellent book, Poetry's Poet: Essays on the Poetry, Pedagogy, and Poetics of Allen Grossman (National Poetry Foundation, 2004). The book also contains excellent essays by such remarkable authors as Ha Jin, Mark Halliday, Dan Morris himself, and a number of other outstanding critics, poets, and scholars.
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