Former U.S. Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky has a new column up at Slate about kvetching poets:
Former U.S. Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky
The Yiddish verb for complaining, kvetch—literally to squeeze or to crush—has an onomatopoetic quality to my ear. All of those consonant sounds, squashed into a single syllable, surrounding the explosive grunt of the short [...]