Like all reviews of arcane poetry it is creative, and shows Kinsella as being very good at this. Sometimes reviews can be more imaginative than the poems. Reader response theory and all that.
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Tim Allan wrote:
I love the poem and I think Kinsella makes a good stab at saying stuff about it. Nothing absurd about it. If anything it is quite a logical response to the content of the poem. Not saying that it is correct or anything or that I would have read it that way, both are irrelevancies. As for the poem itself I would give the proverbial arm and leg to have written some of those lines, whatever different use I probably would have made of them.
Cheers
Tim
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