[RCL]

Sorry, I meant this for General Talk. Please move it there.

As a member the Academy of American Poets, I received the latest book that won the Walt Whitman Award. I've thrown away all of the winners over the last several years since there were no translations available. The latest, though, not only insults Whitman, but it is worse than I can imagine poetry being. I can follow only one poem, and it is the one cited on the back cover as a rare wonder among those, the critic suspects, most readers would love to shred. Does anyone else have the book, Put Your Hands In? Maybe I'm just in a cranky mood?