Tuesday, February 10, 2009

News at Eleven: Drawing from a set of workshop conventions

widely used by younger poets, [Elizabeth] Skurnick has cut her lyrics to the quick, shedding excessive words and animating what's left with unusual emotional weight, with such themes as the recklessness of young love and the diminishment implicit in most social roles. Proof again that a good writer can shape any form into an expressive vehicle.

from The Brooklyn Rail: A Poet Stretches

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