Robert Pinsky\'s headnotes for each of the 80 poems and his brief introductions to each section take a writer\'s view of specific works: William Carlos Williams\'s "Fine Work with Pitch and Copper" for intense verbal music
Emily Dickinson\'s "Because I Could Not Stop for Death" for wild imagination in matter-of-fact language
Robert Southwell\'s "The Burning Babe" for surrealist aplomb
Wallace Stevens\'s "The House Was Quiet and the World Was Calm" for subtlety in meter.
Included are poems by Aph.
Robert Pinsky\'s headnotes for each of the 80 poems and his brief introductions to each section take a writer\'s view of specific works: William Carlos Williams\'s "Fine Work with Pitch and Copper" for intense verbal music
Emily Dickinson\'s "Because I Could Not Stop for Death" for wild imagination in matter-of-fact language
Robert Southwell\'s "The Burning Babe" for surrealist aplomb
Wallace Stevens\'s "The House Was Quiet and the World Was Calm" for subtlety in meter