The Faerie Queene is OK read in bits in a bar by the fire with a good supply of beer and french cigarettes - that last impossible now alas. . But there are many poems (Ginsberg's Howl for instance) of which a single page is a page too many. I once tried to read something by David Jones, but not very hard. And there are always Pound's Cantos, you know, the pissing Cantos. He deserved to be locked up for a very long time for that.
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