from reading just one line from just one of his poems: "I stand with my hand on the door handle, take the pulse of the house." This line comes from a poem by this year's Nobel laureate, Sweden's favorite son, poet Tomas Tranströmer, and it wonderfully embodies this masterful poet's faith in the enigmatic. That one sentence characterizes his obsession with blending the decisive moment ("hand on the door handle") with the weight of history ("take the pulse").
from David Biespiel: The Oregonian: A poet who lives up to his Nobel Prize
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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 David Biespiel: The Oregonian: Poetry: Everyday words and the hauntingly familiar
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