Their poems were avowedly personal ... and from Robert Creeley; from the Objectivist poets (George Oppen, Lorine Niedecker, Louis Zukofsky), and from those poets’ common source, William Carlos ...

On the one hand, the late author, philosopher, and progenitor of the Objectivist movement was a high-minded sort who disdained unserious thought. But it should not be forgotten that she saw power ...