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

[Suzanne Burns]

On 4/7/07, Jeff Newberry <jeff.newberry at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I'm not a fan of Logan, though I may have been in the past.  At one point,
> I think I thought it was some kind of "duty" to write what I conceived of as
> "honest" reviews.  I don't subscribe to that Logic anymore.  Writing bad
> reviews is easy--too easy.  It's like fishing in an overstocked pond--of
> course, you're going to catch something and of course you're going to find
> something that you don't like.



In my opinion hatchet jobs and puff pieces are pretty much cut from the same
bolt of emotional cloth.  They aren't honest, and they aren't about the
poetry--- they are about the writer of the hatchet job or puff piece, they
are about career, and they are a sign that in many important ways this
community is too small for its own good.

There are so many really good reviewers out there-- Rain Taxi does very well
in finding thoughtful reviewers.  I don't know why the Times can't do
better.

Suzanne Burns
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