Kay Ryan was selected to become the sixteenth Poet Laureate of the United States in Autumn 2008 succeeding Charles Simic. The wit and the compression of Ryan's art are illustrated in the poem "Outsider Art":
Their purpose wraps
around the backs of things
and under arms;
they gouge and hatch
and glue on charms
till likable materials –
apple crates and canning funnels –
lose their rural ease. We are not
pleased the way we thought
we would be pleased.
— excerpt from "Outsider Art" [7]
around the backs of things
and under arms;
they gouge and hatch
and glue on charms
till likable materials –
apple crates and canning funnels –
lose their rural ease. We are not
pleased the way we thought
we would be pleased.
— excerpt from "Outsider Art" [7]
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