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Unread 12-01-2009, 06:58 PM
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I reviewed a book of hers a few years ago, none too favorably but not entirely negatively either. A cut from the review later showed up on the Harvard UP website as a recommendation! She's a good close reader, but has strange taste when it comes to contemporary poets who aren't alreadly canonized. Her championship of Jorie Graham and Dave Smith makes me suspect her judgment of poets that haven't yet made any kind of critical consensus.
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