Poetry. Reality isn't real. Why do we look?/ We look because the real is the shape of that the world be real and we a person in it./ We believe our beliefs to pretend that that should be/ or abide a world whose reality isn't real. One of our most intimate, haunting, and important poets—Dictionary of Literary Biography. One of the most solid and unfrivolous contemporary poets—Kirkus Reviews. Arguably the most metaphysical poet of his generation—Hungry Mind Review.