gestures of obeisance that are actually acts of oblivion.
"Chop," then, is a less accessible poem than it looks, and less comforting than it is accessible. Like Robert Frost, Ms. Ryan tends to lay out her metaphors like traps, coaxing the reader into them before springing all their dark implications.
from The New York Sun: Kay Ryan, a Laureate Worth Lauding
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