Just to second Nate Dorward's appreciation for Pete Smith's remarkable poem
"20/20 vision". It's a very exciting work, full of sharp lines, memorable
phrasing and narrative verve, though I'd be hard put to paraphrase an
all-encompassing narrative. For all its technical brio, its humanity was
what really got under my defences. So rather than discuss its undeservedly
low position on the usual big-o-meters, I'll just say that this is a book
I've grown to value and, indeed, love.
Enough mush. Five free copies to the first handful of answers to the
question:
what poem's this from:
the sots and thralls of lust do in spare hours thrive more than I, sir, who
spend life upon thy cause? (or something like that, notice I didn't say
_correct_ answers)
You may like to sit down before reading further.
One can actually BUY (such things are done, albeit rarely) the book for
£3.50 from me at Wild Honey Press, 16a Ballyman Rd., Bray, Co. Wicklow
Ireland.
best
Randolph Healy
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