A Poet Praised

In response to a question at a recent reading about admired poets, I mentioned the poet William Bronk.  I first heard the name many years ago in a conference with my teacher Laurence Perrine, author of the widely used text Sound and Sense.   He found Bronk's work exceptional as did the acclaimed poet Peter Kane Dufault whom I met much later.  The poems have a remarkable music, their abstractions resonant.  One absorbs an insight.  In his poem "Frailty" (from Living Instead, 1991), treating our desire for "mastery," he concludes: "Yet the frail world goes on/ unmastered, unmastering, and so do we./  Better to love us both the way we are."