SOURCE: Michelson, Bruce. “Words.” In Wilbur’s Poetry: Music in a Scattering Time, pp. 36-60. Amherst: The University of Massachusetts Press, 1991.
In the following essay, Michelson explores word-play in several of Wilbur's poems, including “The Regatta” and “Year's End”.
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