Sunday, November 12, 2017

A fugitive from fashion …

… “The Exceptional Man”: Rereading Richard Wilbur - Los Angeles Review of Books. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

Wilbur once wrote that poems “should include every resource which can be made to work,” and in his best poems, no motion is wasted. They resemble happy athletes: the flab has been trimmed, the muscles are limber.

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