"full of nails and ghosts"
Simic, Dove, Clampitt, Bowman, Brigham
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Charles Simic:
Rita Dove:
Catherine Bowman:
In Rita Dove's poem, "Taking in Wash" the power of the mother grows and blooms from stanza to stanza, mama-bear energy finishing the piece with a full burst of force. So good.
Thanks for reminding me about the richness of Clampitt’s poems. At one point, I contemplated an essay on the tension in her work between the rich language and her oft-expressed skepticism about language.