Pulitzer Praise

By jody on April 30, 2011 | Add a Comment

The Best of It by Kay ryan
Pulitzer Praise

How many words
does it take to praise
The Best of It?
Divide the page
in thirds: use only
the left of it.  Ladder
it with rhyme twined
time and again,
with sinewy sense
condensed 
to a column of
implication--meant,
of course, to resemble
what she does 
so deftly.  Be frugal--
imitation requires
the Ryan touch,
so few words used
to say so much.

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