The Fence Lesson

Kay Bosgraaf is a poet of unstinting and nearly comprehensive noticing. She brings a painter's eye, a musician's ear, and a rare talent for lucidity. Often her business is outwardly modest, to consecrate an instant, but she imagines so precisely and she writes so well that I am always engaged, whether in the rural scenes of "The Fence Lesson" or the between-cities landscape of "After Six Weeks." She is a poet of range, of places, but, also, of people. Again and again, she surprises, sometim...