News at Eleven: Here, at the outset, is the breathtaking

surety of the voice that dares to offer apparent unsureness, inviting the reader to wonder along with it, in a kind of simulation of "real time," as if the poem were being composed under our very eyes. Here is the understatement, the precise diction that looks deceptively casual; the verbal conflation of "shallow" with "shadow"; the noun "land," given the verbs that would go naturally with its invisible rhyme "hand"--"lean down to lift," "drawing," "tugging." Here is the characteristic modulation of English iambics, gently adapted to a speaking voice that holds the line without buckling into any awkward rigidity. Here are [Elizabeth] Bishop's unobtrusive rhymes, including the hypnotic effect of words that rhyme with themselves.

from The New York Review of Books: A Genius Ill-Served

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