Tracy K. Smith Reads Matthew Dickman
The New Yorker: Poetry
Metaphor Leading the Path of the Poem
The chosen poem makes vigorous use of a metaphor that is set up early in the poem and followed through, leading its own path and portraying the quiet but persistent urgencies of American life.
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