News at Eleven: But he [Mark Doty] also argues, here by

quoting Susan Mitchell, that "the world is wily, and doesn't want to be caught," caught, that is, in the net of descriptive language, a resistance Mr. Doty explores at length in a close reading of Elizabeth Bishop's "The Fish." He calls this poem "a carefully rendered model of an engaged mind at work," rather than a carefully rendered model of a fish, which it also is. Faced with the resistance of the wily world and with the limits of perception and language, the artful describer turns inward, he argues, until perception begins to reveal more about the interiority of the perceiver than the perceived.

from The East Hampton Star: Mr. Congeniality

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