SOURCE: Michelson, Bruce. “Richard Wilbur's The Mind Reader.” The Southern Review (summer 1979): 763-68.
In the following essay, Michelson explicates the poetic themes of Wilbur's collection, The Mind Reader, focusing on how the collection will endure because the individual poems lend themselves so much to new readings.
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