Reviewing Poetry (or the Negative Positive Knee-Jerk Jamboree) In assessing literary journalism’s dearth of negative poetry reviews, Kent Johnson hits a lot of nails on the head: most poetry critics are practicing poets themselves; as such many are prone to use reviewing as a place for toadyism and ladder climbing rather than to confront real […]
Eric Lorberer
ROUNDTABLE RESPONSES TO “SOME DARKER BOUQUETS”
: : V. Joshua Adams : : Joe Amato : : Robert Archambeau : : Tim Atkins : : Robert Baird : : John Beer : : John Bradley : : Stephen Burt : : Scott Esposito : : Annie Finch : : Bill Freind : : Daisy Fried : : Johannes Göransson : : Mark Halliday : : John Latta : : David Lau : : Eric Lorberer […]
SOME DARKER BOUQUETS: A ROUNDTABLE
Note: The following letter responds to an editorial comment and three reviews by Jason Guriel, published in the March, 2009 issue of Poetry. Because portions of this letter were initially posted at Poetry’s online version, it could not be included in the print version of the magazine. In any case, the issues broached here regarding practices of reviewing in […]
