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Title: Wan, slight collection of prosaic poems
Review: The very thin collection of poems by University of Toronto professor of English and gay and AIDS activist Michael Lynch (who died of AIDS in 1992) has a few flashes of wit, but neither searing images or memorable lines. Indeed, the lines don't scan very well and wobble across stanza breaks in a number of instances. The final one, no less prosaic than the other multi-part riffs, "Yellow Kitchen Gloves," jottings on a demonstration in Washington, D. C. after police there wore gloves for another AIDS-related demonstration, seems to me the most interesting, but the wan poetry is eclipsed by the slightly mysterious graphics of Douglas Kinsey.Lynch's biography, _AIDS Activist._ by Ann Silversides, is more interesting than his poetry.
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