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Friday, January 07, 2005

A Blurb For An Unpublished Book

He utterly rejects the easy irony and flattening of affect so endemic to the contemporary poetry scene, a scene increasingly peopled by young, earnest poets who are way hipper than you.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Are you trying to say that Ben Lerner is hipper than me? I did see him at the Black Dice show at Northsix and he was wearing this awesome vintage Testament T-shirt, too-tight Levis, a trucker hat and Asics. Now that is one hip mofo!

Anthony Robinson said...

I said not a thing about Ben Lerner.

However, when I read this comment I said aloud to myself, "Holy Cow!"

Why? Because I was just listening to Testament a minute ago--"Disciples of the Watch."

Love,
Tony

Anonymous said...

Wow, you and Ben Lerner must be meant for each other.

Anthony Robinson said...

No. Uh-uh. See, I'm pretty sure that, t-shirt or not, Ben Lerner doesn't actually listen to Testament like I do.

TR