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Title: 'Glum cinnamon'
Review: Derieva's Sum Total of Violations was a revelation. These versions by divers hands are, shall we say, variable. Some (Andrey Gritman p11) are worse than others (Andrey Gritman p12) but as a whole they lack conviction, while some are barely English - most of the 20-poem sequence Winter Lectures for Terrorists, for instance, with the notable exceptions of Methods of Relations (bar that dodgy title), More Recommendations of a General Order (title ditto) and Study of Foreign Languages. Diplomat Kevin Carey, who did these, is also responsible for the other undoubted successes of the collection, It was not Necessary to Study and But if there is a Bomb?, and the only slightly less good I Have Rolled Myself Up. One's left frustrated by the lack of a firmer editorial hand
