The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, September 15th, 2002
Two poets, two views of 9-11 By ROBERT PINSKY Sunday, September 15, 2002 I have read many poems responding to the Sept. 11 attacks. Most of them seem rooted not in a response to the event itself but in the poet's sense of what one should feel or say about such an event: something large-minded, or patriotic, or loyal, or insightful, or moral. Contrary to that procedure, the art I admire most begins with some real experience. Frank Bidart's poem "Curse," in a way shockingly, comes from the poet's actual response to a terrible and terrifying reality. The poem is just what its title says it i...
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