“One crosses the brink of literalness into poetry by desiring, noticing, fixing on something and wondering what to make of it.”

— John Hollander

Review of 'Stanley Cavell and the Claim to Reason' Critical Inquiry, vol 6, no 4 Summer 1980 U of C P

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American poet 1929–2013

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