Since there are a bazillion new people on the LJ thanks to LJ idol, it's question time. Ask whatever you want, as lots of the crap I rant about can be hard to catch context on.
That's one of those hideously awkward questions in part because of People I Know, some of whom would at least wind up on the contender list.
Luckily, I know a derth of poets, and can comfortably say Lucie Brock-Broido for The Master Letters, particularly the prose pieces in the book. There is a formality, and tightness and an absolute sense of rigor to her words, and the addressing of the prose pieces (which take the form of letters) is uniformly brilliant.
Re: Yay!
Date: 2007-11-09 10:18 pm (UTC)Luckily, I know a derth of poets, and can comfortably say Lucie Brock-Broido for The Master Letters, particularly the prose pieces in the book. There is a formality, and tightness and an absolute sense of rigor to her words, and the addressing of the prose pieces (which take the form of letters) is uniformly brilliant.
Master, my tinsmith,