Quote by: Kay Ryan

One can't work/by limelight.//A bowlful/right at/one's elbow//produces no/more than/a baleful/glow against/the kitchen table.//The fruit purveyor's/whole unstable/pyramid//doesn't equal/what daylight did.


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Author Bio


  • NameKay Ryan
  • DescriptionAmerican poet
  • BornSeptember 21, 1945
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionPoet; Author
  • AwardsGuggenheim Fellowship; MacArthur Fellows Program; Pulitzer Prize For Poetry; National Humanities Medal