Poetry gives us the rages, transformations and rapes of Ovid and the scornful, engaging melancholies of Baudelaire. It is an art made not with special materials or tools, but with something people use all day: language. Because it is free to use our strangest dreams as well as our most humdrum... -
POET'S CHOICE By Robert Pinsky
Poetry gives us the rages, transformations and rapes of Ovid and the scornful, engaging melancholies of Baudelaire. It is an art made not with special materials or tools, but with something people use all day: language. Because it is free to use our strangest dreams as well as our most humdrum...-
By Robert Pinsky