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The Culprit Poem
Apropos of the previous post, I thought it might be useful to present the culprit poem that so outraged the target of my anti-review. The following is Bill Johnston’s fluid version from the volume Tadeusz Różewicz: New Poems, for which he received the 2008 Found in Translation Award.Read More
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An Anti-Review of Sobbing Superpower: Selected Poems by Tadeusz Różewicz
Among my usual Google alerts from The Quarterly Conversation was a review of Sobbing Superpower: Selected Poems by Tadeusz Różewicz. I’ve always found Quarterly Conversation reviews to be intelligent and insightful, and (full disclosure) Różewicz is one of my favorite poets—so I clicked right through to it. Unfortunately, this piece, by one Patrick Kurp, is an exception—that is, it is exceptionally skewed, snotty, and crackpottish.Read More