Tuesday, August 26, 2008

Great Regulars: [Katie] Ford worries less about what

the event means and more about how to bring it to life in a poem.

And she can do that heartbreakingly well. Ford's sludgy lines eddy and snag on unexpected lyricisms: "Blue tarps drape the oysters/harvested from contaminated beds," she writes in "Fish Market," "silverlings caught from trestles of the resealed lake."

from John Freeman: The Star-Ledger: Sorrow rains down

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