Terese and I both had the blessing of careful and generous reviews at The Gazebo:

http://www.alsopreview.com/discus/me...tml?1122606218

Best regards,
David

And well-deserved they are, indeed, David!
Congrats!

Jon H.

David and Terese, good to see, and yes, absolutely well deserved. Kudos to you both !

Congratulations, Terese and David, for having earned such enthusiastic reviews.

Jon, Wendy, Stephen,
Thanks so much for your kind remarks.
Best wishes,
David

David, congratulations on Cheryl Snell's sensitive review of Talking to Lord Newborough. She mentions wistfulness, which I find one of the characteristics that stands out with great appeal in your work.

Thank you much for the mention, and thanks too to Wendy and Stephen.

Terese

I made it into "Foetry":

http://foetry.com/newbb/viewtopic.php?t=197

"The following was sent to me by a friend with the question: “Isn’t something like this as bad as anything more notable writers do? “

I say perhaps. It is not a good answer but it is the best I can come up with. Perhaps you or someone else can come up with a better one and a reason why.

I haven’t an answer so I pose the situation as presented to me.

At an Internet site (poetry forum) someone posted the following: “Terese and I both had the blessing of careful and generous reviews at The Gazebo:”

It was posted by someone named David Anthony who is a moderator or some functionary at the site it was posted at (Eratosphere)

After looking up the book review at the site mentioned and reading the glowing review something of note struck me:

The review, which included the somewhat over-the-top beginning: “If a poem is a verbal device designed to go off in the heart (apologies to Phillip Larkin) then David G. Anthony’s graceful, contemplative second collection implodes quietly, delivering emotional truths from within well- crafted constructs. “ was written by someone named
Cheryl Snell, who it turns out is a moderator or functionary at the Gazebo site where the book review was posted.

What gave my sender and perhaps me, but to a lesser degree, a feeling of alarm was the following notation:

Talking to Lord Newborough
by David G. Anthony
Alsop Review Press
ISBN: 0976195410 "

--Jack Conway

I didn't see if anyone on the thread had an answer to the question posed to Jack Conway, but the answer seems obvious to me.

Jorie Graham and others should recuse themselves rather than award prestigious prizes to their students, friends and lovers. But when one simply praises the work of a poet in an online poetry forum, the stakes are much lower and so one need not refrain from promoting the work of people one admires so long as one can do so sincerely. Ideally, one should disclose a relationship to the poet if it is a significant one.

But here the relationship (if any) is tenuous, and it is fully disclosed. The review identifies David's book as having been published by The Alsop Review Press and Gazebo identifies itself as a on-line forum associated with The Alsop Review. Having identified the nexus between Cheryl Snell, David Anthony, and the Alsop Review Press, Mr. Conway and his anonymous friend can take that information into account when they read Ms. Snell's review of David's book.

epigone

Congratulations, David. You have drawn your first snark; with nothing real to criticize, he criticized the book review. He doesn't even know the principals - "someone named David...someone named Cheryl..." Big deal.

You benefit by an opportunity to write an acerbic riposte -"To an Ignorant Critic" - poem. Bon appetit.

I've commented on this at the Gazebo, where there is a discussion worth reading:
http://www.alsopreview.com/discus/me...tml?1123783742

Best,

Terese