I dug Bob Perelman. I don't care for academic introductions—that tell you what and how, as if you're a highly evolved sentient being with a big vocabulary who's never conceptualized a poem before, or read one—but Jasper Bernes's introduction was quite good.
Through this and that, I got home hella late.
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Introductions that use the word "millenia" in place of the word "years" should earn a pie in the face of the introducer. I'd bring the pie, but I'd hate wasting one of my tasty pies on the people who say such things.
well, if i'm about to hear a poet whose work, for instance, is both "contigent, yet universal," or, say, "articulates the ineffable" (to give just two examples) -- hey, i wanna be warned first.
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