Not so much curdudgeonly (which reminds me of blunt cudgels) as a
razor sharp corrective - thanks Rachel -
best
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>Apologies for cross or even curmudgeonly postings--
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>but if you've had it with holly, hie away to
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>http://www.poems.com/
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>where, as Susan Schultz said of this poem on another list (quoted with
>permission), "Rachel Loden channels(!) Richard Nixon's voice. What a
>strange perverse and wonderful thing it is. . . ."
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>If you're reading this message after Saturday, December 27, click on
>"Previously on Poetry Daily" or "Archives" to see the poem, which also
>appears (with four running mates) in the current _Denver Quarterly_.
>
>In the print issue: John Kinsella, Andrea Baker, David Biespiel, Peter
>Cooley, K. E. Duffin, Dennis Finnell, Henry Hart, Joanna Klink, Joyelle
>McSweeney, Fred Muratori, Alane Rollings, Mary Ann Samyn, Robyn Schiff,
>Reginald Shepherd, D. E. Steward, David St. John, Donna Stonecipher,
>Karen Volkman, Steve Almond, Thomas Fink, Benjamin Ivry, Richard
>Kostelanetz, Leonard Schwartz
>
>An end to "listless festooning,"
>
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>
>Rachel Loden
>http://www.thepomegranate.com/loden/hotel.html
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