>>"[ ] is the crudest user of transparent hype in the poetry business."
>I'll snatch that accolade damn it. Genuinely I would love to.
How about a snatch of this:
"Keston Sutherland is a 'funky little...modern, everyday UK poet...
not-too-clever, yet quite deep...'"?
I was in a Howard Johnson's ["family restaurant"] recently and found
the chain celebrating its 75th anniversary (remember the "One Flavor"
Howard Johnson's in _Blazing Saddles_?) with special placements that
feature brief testimonials from aficianados all over the US.
Some of these Ho-Jo blurbs would also make for folksy book-cover hype:
"The kids, now 29-31, still talk about it!"
"Pearl said add 6 more and all just as great!"
"Whether we went with friends or alone, we always finished
with a dish of ice cream, or perhaps a cone."
Cheers,
Candice
P.S. There's a new 75th-anniversary sandwich, too: Pilgrim's Pride
(turkey, stuffing, and cranberry sauce wrapped up together in "a
flour tortilla."
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