Sounding Good

After finishing my reading of the Sylvia Plath Collected I moved on to James Wright's Above The River: The Complete Poems, and I'm glad I did. He begins as a poet of great formal 'correctness' and euphony and splendidly loosens up over time. I'm still reading the early stuff, relishing the command of rhythm and rhyme, and finding more meat, in terms of content, than when I've just dipped into the poems in the past. Mind you, when words sound as good as this I'm not convinced that meaning is that much of an issue.