Poetry is one person talking, whispering to another.
To succeed, poets need interesting stories to share and, perhaps more importantly, interesting ways of telling their secrets. In Sandra McPherson's The God of Indeterminacy, many of the poems are told through quilts and music, most notably the blues. The Center in the Corner . . . The tone here is definitely intimate, striving to communicate. Yet, at the same time, therels a certain calculated distancing that I'm happy to say is absent, for the most part, in her poetry.