A writer selects from a small range of words to build emotion and ideas.Robert Pinsky's "Shirt" explores this faith in limiting the imagination with, in this case, the language of the shirt. Or, I should say, his investigation is about shirt-ness, and it leads him into revealing historical, personal and transnational experience about an object everyone has an intimate knowledge of.
Shirt
from Robert Pinsky via David Biespiel: The Oregonian: Poetry: Everyday words and the hauntingly familiar
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