[Rick Mullin]

Based on the riveting insights in those first two paragraphs, I'm not sure I have to read Wilbur anymore to be awash in reverence. ~,:^)

Well, let's agree, Rory, that with this stuff from Goldsmith and Wilbur, along with the gibberish on Ahkmatova by Forche (see "The Discerning Eye"), Poetry has mastered the 21st century art of coaxing the bullshit out of otherwise very interesting people. How our heroes fall for it I'll never understand, but they nonetheless leave us are marked by their witness for eternity.

Thanks, Poetry. Thanks for nuthin.