April 1994
"The real mystery Rivard's poem opens up has nothing to do with a train; it's about the way songs enter people's lives, the way people can't get them out. Their beauty, at its most intense, might be more a rebuke than anything else."
"The real mystery Rivard's poem opens up has nothing to do with a train; it's about the way songs enter people's lives, the way people can't get them out. Their beauty, at its most intense, might be more a rebuke than anything else."