epigrams, rather than lyric works--they are founded in wisdom, not in song. She wants to make her words of adult wisdom as appealing as the folly they displace, and so she draws on every aural tool compatible with epigram--rhyme, syncopation, reanimated cliche: "The Fabric of Life" "is very stretchy./We know that, even if/many details remain/sketchy." "One can't work/by lime light." When Ryan writes "we" she means you, anyone, everyone; when she says "I" she indicates not a biography but an opinion, a point of view.
from San Francisco Chronicle: 'The Best of It,' by Kay Ryan
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