[New-Poetry] Bad blog reviews

[Chris Lott]

I don't know... I don't necessarily have a problem with negative
reviews other than feeling they generally don't do anything
productive, but there are a couple of moments where this review strays
from poems and seems to hint at some deeper personal enmity. Not to
mention simple factual errors. For instance, Corea is known for
fusion, but he plays "It don't mean a thing" on multiple albums, just
as there are MANY album covers not shown in the list of albums that
Schiavo links to but represents as if Corea himself had addressed the
issue.

I suspect there is more going on here than not liking the poems and
that makes the review smell pretty bad. Which is too bad because
otherwise I think Schiavo does the right things: lots of examples of
what he dislikes, reference to those he thinks did it better, etc.

I've seen a few Matthew Dickman's poems and they ranged from
above-average to quite good imo. Bill Knott, David Graham (? I think
it was through him that I heard of Dickman for the first time) and me
makes three, balancing the BobG teeter-totter.

c