[New-Poetry] Suburban Rapture: Phyllis McGinley's poetry

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_http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/28/books/review/Bellafante-t.html_ 
(http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/28/books/review/Bellafante-t.html) 
 
By the time Riesman’s essay appeared, she had been living contentedly for a  
number of years as a wife, mother and well-known poet in Larchmont, N.Y.,  
writing reverentially of lush lawns and country-club Sundays in The New Yorker,  
Harper’s and elsewhere. A devotee of convention in nearly every respect, she  
committed herself to form, which during the high moment of the confessional  
poets seemed anachronistic enough to count as new-fashioned. McGinley’s light  
verse sought to convey the ecstatic peace of suburban ritual, the delight in  
greeting a husband, in appointing a room, in going to the butcher. 
Anticipation  pervades her work, the feeling of something quietly joyful about to happen —
 
 
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