The new new thinking

Fall Higher, the latest collection of poems from Dean Young, rises to number 3 on this week’s contemporary best seller list (the cherry on the top of which is, as ever, Billy Collins). The New York Times (fancy!) called Fall Higher “a thicket of irresistible first lines.” The Los Angeles Times (schmancy!) uncovered the connection between one of Young’s irresistible first lines (“All the new thinking was about collision”) with Robert Hass’s famous 1979 first line “All the new thinking is about loss” from his poem “Meditation at Lagunitus.” 32 years later, Hass has moved onto the new new thinking (about some other category of insurance, no doubt) in his latest collection, The Apple Trees at Olema (number 14).