[New-Poetry] All the Logan That's Fit to Print

[TheOldMole]

I enjoy Logan, and I think he has his place, but he's better with his 
little drive-bys on a roundup of poets than he is in this full-length NY 
Times review of Derek Walcott -- 
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/08/books/review/Logan.t.html

Here's a taste:

Walcott had barely been noticed before he became noted. By his mid 30s, 
he was composing a verse autobiography (an act of hubris akin to a pop 
star writing his life at 19). “Another Life” (1973) is a pretentious, 
pressure-cooker affair, a tour de force fatally uneasy with itself. 
(Surely you give a few hostages to describe yourself as a prodigy, even 
if a “prodigy of the wrong age and colour.”) At times it reads like “The 
Prelude” by a writer far more elegant than Wordsworth, though almost 
every line about the poet himself sounds false.

The Times, with its broader-than-the-PoWorld readership, should be 
giving its reviews to someone else.

-- 
Tad Richards
http://www.opus40.org/tadrichards/
http://opusforty.blogspot.com/