[New-Poetry] Poetry bestsellers

[Anthony Lawrence]

I think perhaps it's more a case of what she's done. Her book House  
of Light and other early works
arrested the inner attention of readers with the way she wrote about  
the natural world.
She was able to write with great simplicity that worked by way of a  
layering of the senses,
in which a child-like surprise and delight was at work within real  
craft. Obviously readers
don't mind that she's still writing the same poem over and over. When  
you're on a good thing...


On 07/10/2006, at 7:58 AM, Bob Grumman wrote:

> I understand Collins's popularity, but how about Oliver's?  What's  
> she doing that a hundred other mainstream poets aren't?
>
> --Bob G.
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