Review of 'Poems, new and collected, 1957-1997' on 'Goodreads'
4 stars
There are some nice reviews on the cover. Of these, I prefer the one from the New Yorker, "...ironic elegance miraculously free of bitterness..."
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Note: Poems are read and re-read, but I cannot remember their titles, so I put a mark next to poems in the table of contents if I especially like them. The ratio of marked to unmarked poems is the Mitchell index, and as of this writing, it is 17% for this 1957 - 1993 collection.
Second Note: Of course I don't put a mark by every poem if I like most or all of them, so I realize now that the index is probably worthless.
