[New-Poetry] Blurbiest

[steve moore]

>
> "If you took the honesty of D. H. Lawrence, the courage of Robin  
> Hood, the mordant incisiveness of William Empson, the ambivalent  
> tension of Dostoevsky, the verve of Kenneth Koch, and the pluck of  
> next year's Wimbledon champion, and multiplied everything by seven,  
> you might have one-third of the talent displayed in *Selfwolf*. Or  
> you might have something else. Reading *Selfwolf* is like reading  
> the e-mail from Whitman's unknown grandson to Pynchon's missing  
> daughter, or vice versa. More readable than Hart Crane, more candid  
> than Jorie Graham, and more up-to-date than Alexander Pope, Mark  
> Halliday is either a new colossus on the scene of post-contemporary  
> American poetry or an infinitesimal blip of male bourgeois anxiety.  
> You be the judge."
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>
> -possibly the best blurb ever
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