Dan Chiasson

“If you are made for flight, intended for it,you had better find a pursuer, fast.Otherwise, all that fleeing is going nowhere.”

“The most significant events, Bishop seems to argue, are destined to remain outside the scope of description. It is perhaps their very status as excessive or fugitive that makes them, in the end, significant. A poet who believes such things will not arrive uncomplicatedly at self-description.”