Thanks for this -- it brought to my eyes tears of nostalgia for my homeland.
Leona
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> Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2000 12:01:33 -0400 (EDT)
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>>> "[ ] is the crudest user of transparent hype in the poetry business."
>
>> I'll snatch that accolade damn it. Genuinely I would love to.
>
>
> How about a snatch of this:
>
> "Keston Sutherland is a 'funky little...modern, everyday UK poet...
> not-too-clever, yet quite deep...'"?
>
>
> I was in a Howard Johnson's ["family restaurant"] recently and found
> the chain celebrating its 75th anniversary (remember the "One Flavor"
> Howard Johnson's in _Blazing Saddles_?) with special placements that
> feature brief testimonials from aficianados all over the US.
>
> Some of these Ho-Jo blurbs would also make for folksy book-cover hype:
>
> "The kids, now 29-31, still talk about it!"
>
> "Pearl said add 6 more and all just as great!"
>
> "Whether we went with friends or alone, we always finished
> with a dish of ice cream, or perhaps a cone."
>
>
> Cheers,
>
> Candice
>
> P.S. There's a new 75th-anniversary sandwich, too: Pilgrim's Pride
> (turkey, stuffing, and cranberry sauce wrapped up together in "a
> flour tortilla."
>
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