Thanks for sharing. In addition to Mason's essay in The Poetry of Life, there is an essay in The Reaper Essays (Eds. Mark Jarman and Robert McDowell) that explores Simpson's narrative gifts. I am more familiar with the poems he wrote "under the spell of Walt" and, as Mason pointed out in his essay, he sometimes gets lazy, but there are far more rewards than disappointments. I regret that I didn't bring any of his books with me when I left the country.
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