TOO much to bear! Megan O’Rourke is a great poet as well? According to Joel Brouwer in today’s New York Times she has
a bemused, detached tone reminiscent of the famously reticent Elizabeth Bishop … [S]he narrows her eyes and strains to distinguish intelligence from chatter, to discern a path to the authentic
Some day I shall be telling my grandchildren that I glimpsed her once across a crowded room.
