Chris Lott at Cosmopoetica has been doing a great job reading his way through the latest Best American Poetry volume, edited by David Wagoner. I was so taken with his close reading of the Terrance Hayes‘s poem “A House is not a Home” that I dove into the comment stream with this observation: I have to be honest: the first two sentences of your post led me to expect a close reading of a single poem—and sure enough, you delivered! No thumping of this or that Theory drum, just a thoughtful response to the words on the page.Read More