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Review: Gad, what a dreadful bore! The problem is not that the poetry in this volume is experimental--it's that it's incredibly dull, hiding its lack of content, or even anti-content--its lack of new ideas--in its inscrutability. Experimental poetry is not necessarily a dead end, but from this pleasureless, drearily mannered volume you'd think it was. There's hardly a narrative poem by anyone under 50--and there's plenty of excellent young narrative poetry being written. Creeley's got his head in the sand. This is a monument to what's already over and done with. Please, David Lehman, pick somebody a little younger, a little hipper, to edit this next year.
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