| Bill Carpenter |
10-27-2018 02:17 PM |
Praise for Mr. Either/Or
From Patrick Kurp's Anecdotal Evidence for Oct. 8, 2018:
"I’ve read one recent exception to the size-as-morbid-obesity problem faced by poets: Aaron Poochigian’s book-length Mr. Either/Or: A Novel in Verse (Etruscan Press, 2016). I read it last Thanksgiving Day and again recently, and I suspect one way to avoid the long-poem curse is to have a lively and flexible sense of humor. Poochigian is a classicist and translator of Greek, and simultaneously has a sensibility steeped in popular culture. He has composed a page-turner (a claim I would normally avoid) that is very funny and never reads like self-indulgence."
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