David Baker Reads Stanley Plumly
The New Yorker: Poetry
The Loneliness of Stanley Plumlee
The poem was written by Stanley Plumlee and published in the June 20, 1983 issue of the New Yorker. It's a funny poem because the poem moves laterally in those long lines with a kind of leisurely pace,. Yet it's about things that go up and down, falling, and the first spill is that check-off narrative.
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