the Top Gun technician makes it easy for himself from the mechanical angle: the forms are loose and unrhymed, held together only by the beat of the iambic pentameter. But from the thematic angle there is a strict discipline in operation. Every recollection has to be specific. If it passes that test, it can come from as far back as early childhood.The way these poems search their author's early mind suggests he has belatedly discovered a modus operandi that he might have used all along.
from The New York Times: Final Act
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