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Title: Far Side of Tedium
Review: Sleigh's poems are an odd brew of arid bookishness and meeching self-pity. All of these poems' effects, and I mean all of them, come across as studied and second-hand. Sleigh is weary of the world in a variety of distinctly superior and fashionable ways. Allusions to the classics abound, as they often do when a poet tries to prop up slight material with "learning." Dust collects in the corners of these poems. This book is a perfect example of poetry willed into existence by a writer devoid of talent.
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