Tuesday, July 29, 2008

Great Regulars: [Kay Ryan] practices dipstick philosophy,

taking a quick reading of the oil in the motor and slamming the hood. She moves away from her themes as rapidly as she engages them, which may be why some critics have compared her to Emily Dickinson, even though her dramatic imagination is far more detached--less blasphemous and exalted--than her predecessor's.

from Meghan O'Rourke: The Outsider Artist: Assessing Kay Ryan, our new poet laureate

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