Using eye instead of I is a way to hold the self loosely, to slip out of its insistence and let observations rise without, as Keats says, any irritable grasping.
Bove writes with a quiet grace, whether he is speaking of childhood grief over a mother\'s drinking, or the sudden rapture of stepping out into the swirl of snow..
Using eye instead of I is a way to hold the self loosely, to slip out of its insistence and let observations rise without, as Keats says, any irritable grasping