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For whatever reason, Carruth remains elliptical about some of the more significant details of his life. For many years he was the editor of Poetry. Prior to that he was part of the Allied Army force that invaded Italy during World War II. He mentions these experiences only briefly, then, for example, writes three paragraphs about watching a frozen bobcat slowly decompose during a spring thaw. Unlike Tobias Wolff and Mary Karr, his former colleagues at Syracuse University, who only mildly retooled their styles for their memoirs This Boy's Life and The Liars' Club, Carruth employs the autobiographical mode as a footnote to his real work. There are more specific details of his life in his National Book Award-winning collection, Scrambled Eggs & Whiskey, than in Reluctantly. What Carruth captures here is more ephemeral yet more vital than a mere autobiography. Given a chance to explain his love of jazz, or his suicide attempt, or his psychoanalysis, Carruth indulges in tangents in ways his strict poetics would never entertain. There is something fitting about the author allowing himself a few autobiographical reflections at this point in his career, and his reluctance only heightens their value. --Edward Skoog
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