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Decades now of looking back at it—
in some old satellite's rearview mirror, say—
has something to show beyond the folds and feeders,
the volumes of magma risen into native rock
or the buried flow of old fires cooling
in ocean beds. The damage has been memorized.

J. D. McClatchy

A poem needs disguises. It needs secrets. It thrives on the tension between what is said and not said; it prefers the oblique, the implied, the ironic, the suggestive; when it speaks, it wants you to lean forward a little to overhear; it wants you to understand things only years later.

J. D. McClatchy

J. D. McClatchy

J. D. McClatchy

Born: December 8, 1945

Died: April 10, 2018 (aged 72)

Bio: J. D. "Sandy" McClatchy was an American poet and literary critic. He is editor of the Yale Review and president of The American Academy of Arts and Letters.

Known for:

American Writers at Home (2004)
Mercury Dressing: Poems (2009)
Plundered Hearts: New and Selected Poems (2014)
Poets on Painters (1988)

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