Characteristic of poetry blurbs is that they are compliments from the "critic" to the (connected) poet. Compliments in conversation or correspondance may or may not be OK, but in published critique they are a cloying fraud perpetrated on the readership.
Maybe too, Emerson-as-Windbag was ahead of his time.
[This message has been edited by MacArthur (edited December 17, 2004).]
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