"The Best of It" is the work of a pastoral poet, comfortable with her [Kay Ryan's] own counsel but keenly aware of the cost of self-sufficiency. "No unguent/can sooth/the chap of/abandonment," she writes in "Polish and Balm," a poem about the mystery of a dead woman's objects. "Who knew/the polish/and balm in/a person's/simple passage/among her things."Few American poets have used the thin line so well, to such mournful effect.
from John Freeman: Los Angeles Times: 'The Best of It: New and Selected Poems' by Kay Ryan
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