What can I say? I walked out of the only Wendy Cope reading I was ever at
(tho it was to have lunch with Annie Finch, Rachel Blau DuPlessis and Jena
Osman, who walked with me). This is the sort of verse that makes Yanks think
that Britain is quite daft (not that we don't have our own -- Deborah
Garrison, for example).
Subtlety is not Baraka's strong suit. There are, in fact, many good works
that address these kinds of issues far better. Wakoski's George Washington
poems, for example. Or Judy Grahn's work (say, A Woman is Talking to Death).
Ron Silliman
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