Kim Bridgford’s ‘A Crown for the Divorcee’
For the subject of “A Crown for the Divorcee at Fifty-Nine,” Kim Bridgford’s late masterpiece, the initial effect of divorce seems to be self-cancellation.
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Carl Phillips’s poems often make me feel like they’re on the way to a story, but leave me off in an Edenic grove where I can experience the pure pleasure of language.
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