the back of the Bloodaxe 'Repair' of C.K.Williams represents him
>as intellectually the most 'challenging American poet' of his generation.
There's no reason to suppose this is meant to mean anything. Bloodaxe
blurbs hand out superlatives like this to almost everyone in a fairly
robotic way---
"Dave Smith is the most outstanding American poet of his generation".
"John Kinsella is the most original Australian poet of his generation"
"the best Irish poet of his generation" (Montague)
"Tony Harrison is the most important poet writing in Britain today"
"JH Prynne is possibly the most significant English poet of the late
twentieth century"
"Ken Smith is probably the most important poet writing today"
"R.S.Thomas is one of the most important poets of our time"
Bloodaxe is the crudest user of transparent hype in the poetry business.
/PR
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