The VERY first review of Kent Johnson's 'A Question Mark Above the Sun: Documents on the Mystery Surrounding a Famous Poem "By" Frank O'Hara'
http://habenichtpress.com/?p=550
Excerpt from the review:
"The text itself was perhaps best described by Owens during his recent visit to Buffalo to see it through the final stages of printing — he called it a literary-critical Tristram Shandy. Indeed, Johnson so dramatizes the metanarrative of his thesis that this is the first book of critical inquiry about which I’m afraid to say too much, for fear of giving away the plot. And it does have one, compleat with villayns and heroes.
The first of these emerge during the highly entertaining section “Corroded by Symbolysme: An Unfinished Novella.” The section fancifully details Johnson’s sojourns in England during various conferences, and his mysterious encounters with British poets intent on preventing the publication of the original “tape essay” by Tosa Motokiyu in which the alternate “True Account” authorship theory was first proposed.
Prominent among these is J.H. Prynne. Apparently the leader of this odd “fellowship of the ring” dedicated to preserving the legacy of Frank O’Hara, Prynne goes white on first hearing of the impending publication of said tape essay during a meeting with Johnson, and the latter subsequently reports incidents of harassment from anonymous callers bearing British accents."
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