SOURCE: "Identity, Vision, Style," in The Nation, Vol. 265, No. 3, June 21, 1997, pp. 40-2.

In the review below, Longenbach praises Graham's writing in The Errancy as mature and argues that it is her best work to date.

Jorie Graham stands among a small group of poets (Dickinson, Hopkins, Moore) whose styles are so personal that the poems seem to have no author at all: They exist as self-made things. Each of her books has interrogated the one preceding it, and The Errancy feels like a culmination. It is her most challenging, most rewarding book. Graham has not simply forged a style; she is exploring the very notion of what it means for a poet to have a style—an exterior mark of an inner vision.

"It has a fine inner lining but it is / as an exterior that you see it—a grace." Graham makes this remark about the coat...