The Best of It: New and Selected Poems

By Kay Ryan
288 pages; Grove Press
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Short, Smart, Hopeful Poems for Dark Times

At once direct and mysterious, Ryan's brief poems are gnomic delights: "Intention doesn't sweeten. / It should be picked young / and eaten."

— Carmela Ciuraru

Printed from Oprah.com on Friday, May 24, 2013