Each poem stands alone, but each also enriches the others.
She need not fear: the poem stands by itself.
In the history of this poem stands, perhaps, the example of Robert Lowell's elegy Alfred Corning Clark.
As our language changes, translations get dated; Heaney's poem stands a much better chance of a long life.
"Each poem stands alone, but each also enriches the others," Robert Campbell said in these pages in 2000.
As Adrienne Rich recalled it, Sexton's poem stood out from the men's "diatribes against McNamara, their napalm poems, their ego-poetry".
Yet the figures circle back to what Kasischke has seen: remarkable for its appearance of chaos, the poem stands out, comes into focus, for the clarity of the angry grief it also presents.
As for any political or personal subtext in Psalm 52, I am unqualified to pursue that line of questioning, and confident, in any case, that the poem stands perfectly happily without it.
Harvey is complicit (being driven in one of the unstopping cars), even as her empathy and the poem stands apart, if not aloof: "In the rear-view glass/ A face pock-marked and hollow that should be growing smaller/ is saying, Dollar, dollar.
"Soldier's Poem", stood out as being "quite unlike anything [they'd] ever done before".
