Matthew Boudway The poets Samuel Menashe, Jack Gilbert, and W. S. Merwin are now all in their eighties. Their reputations secure, their voices assured, they are free either to break their own old rules or to continue following them—and so break the rule that says a poet must not repeat himself. There is beauty in their departures, but also in their returns. In a foreword to (...)
December 04, 2009
Books
Christmas Critics
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