[Ed Shacklee]

Originally Posted by Michael Cantor

Thanks, Maryann. I had no idea. And thanks, Gerry for the choice.

Where are those comments, Julie? I can't find them. (I remember that Gerry's attitude was similar when he accepted the poem - all right, just this once...but don't think this means you can get away with it again...)

http://www.thedarkhorsemagazine.com/poemoftheweek.html --

"Any editor of a poetry journal is deluged with poems in repeating forms such as sestinas and villanelles. I only like a small number of villanelles, even by famous poets (I am not entirely sure about Dylan Thomas’s much vaunted example of this form, though I can understand its appeal). Michael Cantor’s sprightly use of the form as a satirical monologue on contemporary consumerism, combined with his barbed use of French as a shorthand in some quarters for elegance, is an exception. While one would not make overblown claims for this poem, it is wry, formally nimble and with a serious point at its centre. The note of culpability in the switch to the first person in the poem’s closing line is a fine touch."

—Gerry Cambridge


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