I'll try again, since this got bounced back:
Fair enough, cris. You're right, and in the best of all possible worlds I'd
do it.
But I don't have the space or the time to devote to this kind of work, and
I know others will. To add to that, I don't think any of my readers would
be enlightened by me trashing a book I know they wouldn't touch in the
first place. Preaching to the converted or something.
Tony
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> > De: cris cheek <[log in to unmask]>
> > A: british-poets <[log in to unmask]>
> > Asunto: Re: Random House and others
> > Fecha: 07 May 1998 11:43
> >
> > Hi Tony,
> >
> > why not print serious reviews of the books?
> > Commission them.
> > T'would be a turn about. Spin doctors taking
> > the medicine home.
> >
> > I realise that such 'work' appears odious. But
> > by many ways, poets and critics are as culpable
> > in not openly articulating what they don't
> > find engagement with, and why that engagement is
> > lacking, as with positive advocacy of what they do.
> >
> > Certainly, in the reverse case there would be less
> > reticence to drag writers into the dominant mires.
> >
> > love and love
> > cris
> >
> >
> >
> >
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