[New-Poetry] Latta looks at Logan looking at O'Hara

[jforjames at aol.com]

 Of the various crimes Logan may commit, his
willingness to break the apparently unwritten critic's code of "if you
don't have anything nice to say" is an easy one for me to forgive.


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There is guilty pleasure in reading Logan, I must admit. But his reviewing style?has become?so 'schtick' now.
An old burlesque comic punching out one-liner cuts.?I want to back him with a snare drum doing rim-shots
as?he?peels them?off.

And when is he going to?edit an anthology of contemporary poetry. The page count I'm sure won't make even to hundred.
Finnegan

-----Original Message-----
From: Chris Lott <chris.lott at gmail.com>
Sent: Mon, 30 Jun 2008 10:26 pm
Subject: Re: [New-Poetry] Latta looks at Logan looking at O'Hara



On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 17:49, David Graham <grahamd at ripon.edu> wrote:
> A couple good entries also on Greg Rappleye's blog on the same subject--last
> couple days.
> http://sonnetsat4am.blogspot.com/
> Rappleye's blog is one of the ones I visit quite often.
> Logan taking condescending potshots at Frank O'Hara, though:  if that isn't
> a "dog bites man" story, I don't know what is. . . .

I read Rappleye's blog as well and agree that it is quite good.

But, without getting into a debate about Logan himself, I'd be lying
if I didn't note that I agree with a whole lot of the things Logan
said in that review about O'Hara and the NY School, despite the way he
might have said them. Of the various crimes Logan may commit, his
willingness to break the apparently unwritten critic's code of "if you
don't have anything nice to say" is an easy one for me to forgive.

c
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