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In his anthology
The Direction of Poetry (Houghton Mifflin, 1988),
and as poetry editor of The New Criterion,
Robert Richman
promulgated a "new formalism" -- that is, a revival of traditional rhyme and metrics -- that was only sporadically
exemplified by his own poems in Voice in the Wind
(Copper Beech Press, 1997), but the stripped-down, almost raw quality of his new work may bring to mind
Yeats' adage: "There's more enterprise / In
walking naked." This week's poem is one of several meditations on reading from a newly finished manuscript. |
