LESTER SHUE APPROVES OR DISAPPROVES OF POETRY BLURBS

"To think of you alone suffering the poems of these states!": ted berrigan


1) "its haunted, puzzled, delighted aplomb and its self-wounding, self-delighting nouveau Lacanian calculus, desire is the restless remainder of body subtracted from voice, or maybe it's voice from body": No.
2) "are the best of contradictions, coupling tradition with today's sardonic uncertainty.": No.
3) "is qauntum-packed inside its own reality, releasing beams of light and time that bend across the world of human beauty without having ever left the radiant point where the poems begin":No.
4) "positively bristles with intellectual and political energy of a very high order.":No.
5)"here things tend to be rusty, wet, subject to dry rot, incomplete, or just plain out of kilter":Yes.
6) "when poems as intellectually as these are brave enough to take an occasional detour through the heart.":No.
7) "has voraciuosly struggled to unmask what is most painful and hidden in our psyches, and to embody that unmasking in the process of lyric.":No.
8) "feels like standing behind a pane of glass watching the workings of a giant machine: flywheels, the latch catching the sprocket, but somewhere in the clockwork craft and synchronization one realizes a startling and beautiful fact—that this machine, like ourselves, is designed only to keep going.”: Yes.
9) "these poems as crossing the cool, allusive intricacy of Quentin Tarantino with the abstract, intense social passion of Walter Benjamin.": No.