Okay, so
All Things Considered announced the recipients of the 2011 MacArthur Genius Grant. I was so happy to hear that my all-time favourite poet,
Kay Ryan, is one of the fellows. She deserves it!
Example:
A Hundred Bolts of Satin
BY
KAY RYAN All you
have to lose
is one
connection
and the mind
uncouples
all the way back.
It seems
to have been
a train.
There seems
to have been
a track.
The things
that you
unpack
from the
abandoned cars
cannot sustain
life: a crate of
tractor axles,
for example,
a dozen dozen
clasp knives,
a hundred
bolts of satin-
perhaps you
specialized
more than
you imagined.
Kay Ryan, “A Hundred Bolts of Satin” from Say Uncle. Copyright © 2000 by Kay Ryan.