From, “Appetites of a Poetry Virtuoso in America - ‘Collected Poems’ by Jack Gilbert,” by Dwight Garner, 3/13/12, The New York Times:
“Games” is in some respects a good example of Mr. Gilbert’s work. It is plain-spoken, unmetered, pared to essentials. It’s as weathered as a piece of driftwood or a late Chet Baker song.
In other respects, though, it’s an outlier. As his new “Collected Poems” makes clear, Mr. Gilbert is generally wilier than this.
Outlier: a value far from most others in a set of data
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