The Best of It: New and Selected Poems Paperback 0802145213 9780802145215 Kay Ryan

from Eoin

A thorough collection of stripped down lyric poems. I have the pleasant sense that I am not quite able to read these fully.

from josephquinton

Reading her poems, one is struck by their sparseness. The lines are short, sometimes only two or three syllables. Her poems' lengths are similarly slight rarely going over a page. She manages to contain much thought in this meager space so the reader is required to study the intricacies of her wo...

from josephquinton

Reading her poems, one is struck by their sparseness. The lines are short, sometimes only two or three syllables. Her poems' lengths are similarly slight rarely going over a page. She manages to contain much thought in this meager space so the reader is required to study the intricacies of her wo...