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Ah, but the erotic patriotic: Wrapped in a flag, but one breast poked above the stars. Up that flagpole, and called her Miss Liberty. Which I took repeatedly. This is the land of the free. At 10:48 AM 3/20/2008, you wrote: >Oh god, what to say? Actually, a funny review (it had me laughing a >number of times, which is not what erotic poetry should do), & full of >warnings, of which this is perhaps the most pertinent: 'Theme-based >anthologies have the unintended effect of making poets seem trapped by >their subjects: there is no more variation among poets in this book >than there would be in a book called, for example, "The Best American >Patriotic Poems." ' > >As well, the little quote reminded me why I never read Dana Goia. > >Doug >On 19-Mar-08, at 2:40 PM, Max Richards wrote: > >>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/16/books/review/Chiasson-t.html?ex=120659040 >>0&en=4f1c7f1 > >Douglas Barbour >[log in to unmask] > >http://www.ualberta.ca/~dbarbour/ > >Latest book: Continuations (with Sheila E Murphy) >http://www.uap.ualberta.ca/UAP.asp?LID=41&bookID=664 > >to rid me of >the ugh in >thought >i spell anew >weave the world >out of the or >binary > > bpNichol