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Poet's Choice By Robert Pinsky
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me like rye. I had begun
to see the glass
as never empty
& that scared me.
She fills me
like the lake
fills a canoe --
no rescue -- & to swim
I never learned how.
Young helps us think about the language, stereotypes and psychology of actual feelings by alluding to their stylized presence in books and "B" movies. The mingling of parody, tribute and insight befits the word "allusion" -- originally meaning not learned reference but any playing with language -- which comes from the same root as "ludic" and "ludicrous." Young, in this book's serious cultural play, braids the ludicrous and the profound.
(Kevin Young's poem "The Hunch" can be found in his book "Black Maria: Being the Adventures of Delilah Redbone and A.K.A. Jones." Knopf. Copyright 2005 by Kevin Young.)
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