. . "jor poets have had to different registers of speech and kinds of life: he used what he learned, and what he overheard, in striking short stories and in remarkable talk-based poems. ???Portrait of a Woman in Bed??? devotes two pages to a patient???s speech and gestures ??? the gap between stanzas mimes the gap between her sick body and her energetic mind:There???s my thingsdrying in the corner:that" . .