I'm reading about writers :)
This is an extract of the appraisal of Kay Ryan ( born 1945)
♥
About her work, J. D. McClatchy has said:
"Her poems are
compact, exhilarating, strange affairs, like Erik Satie miniatures or Joseph
Cornell boxes. She is an anomaly in today's literary culture: as intense and
elliptical as Dickinson, as buoyant and rueful as Frost."
beautiful!
Nothing Ventured
Nothing exists as a block
and cannot be parceled up.
So if nothing's ventured
it's not just talk;
it's the big wager.
Don't you wonder
how people think
the banks of space
and time don't matter?
How they'll drain
the big tanks down to
slime and salamanders
and want thanks?
and cannot be parceled up.
So if nothing's ventured
it's not just talk;
it's the big wager.
Don't you wonder
how people think
the banks of space
and time don't matter?
How they'll drain
the big tanks down to
slime and salamanders
and want thanks?
Kay Ryan
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