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Title: Not an Interesting Book
Review: I have to say that this is the one truly bad book of poems I've read in the past year. Not mediocre, not disappointing, but actively bad; a lyricism lapsing everywhere into the sentimental, trite emotion (and emotionalism), formal sloppiness and an absolute lack of originality. Most of these poems--and the images they contain--look like first drafts, the first things that would occur to a not-especially talented MFA student, and all travel ground that at this point in the history of American poetry has been traveled a million times already.To me, this is a fairly obvious example of someone parlaying editorship of a well-known magazine into book publication. That it got published is in itself astounding, and that it's praised (even compared to Wallace Stevens's Harmonium) is a sad commentary on our poetic culture.
