In the hands of a less capable poet, their fates would feel almost too grim to bear, but McGriff chronicles their dissolution — and the dissolution of the landscape they come from — with language that manages to be simultaneously spare, cinematic and tactile.
In his NYT review, Jeff Gordinier writes about McGriff's characters: "In the hands of a less capable poet, their fates would feel almost too grim to bear, but McGriff chronicles their dissolution -- and the dissolution of the landscape they come from -- with language that manages to be simultaneously spare, cinematic and tactile".
It deployed 25,000 volunteers and a capable poet-candidate, Kumar Vishwas.Nobody in Congress was enthused by their own man: party workers privately grouch that Mr Gandhi is aloof, absent, and happier fiddling with games on his phone than meeting voters.
Without his "able poet", Mozart might not have reached the full heights of which he was capable, in the genre that meant most to him.
A poet capable of bringing thin work to such fine polish, seeing it praised and anthologized, has a choice: bask or run.
A poet capable of writing (in "The Dead") "These hearts were woven of human joys and cares, / Washed marvellously with sorrow", would surely have written as compassionately as Wilfred Owen, Sassoon and others of the toll war exacted in the trenches.
He writes that the Sonnets, "Othello" and "The Winter's Tale" make it "hard to resist the conclusion that the poet capable of evoking the 'green-eyed monster' in such violent language must have experienced its unique horrors himself," and he further suggests that an adulterous love affair might have spurred the playwright to the bravura writing in "Antony and Cleopatra".
Neither Lucy nor Wordsworth's other female characters "exist as independent self-conscious human beings with minds as capable of the poet's" and are "rarely allowed to speak for themselves".
It brings to mind Keats' coinage, "Negative Capability", which the poet famously defined as "when a man is capable of being in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact and reason".
Sallis, also a poet, is capable of smart phrasing and moments of elegiac energy.
Nearly half a century after her suicide, the great poet is capable of surprising us.
