In the Bank of Beautiful Sins: Poems (Poets, Penguin)
Robert Wrigley writes about the richness at the margins, the way a horrible event can also contain a certain beauty. In "Majestic," he describes the spectacle of a "white Lincoln's arc/ from the crown of the downriver road/ and the splash it bellied in the water." This attention to the complexity of the moment as experienced also fuels "About Language," in which a child innocently curses as geese fly gracefully overhead. Excellent work.