Poetry
Blumenthal, Jay A. & Overton, Ron & Nixon, John Jr.
John Nixon, Jr. Young Tory Much transatlantic visiting And always in the belter castlesThanks to Sir Walter Scott, Dumas, And other literary snobsMade bearable my otherwise Quite Spartan...
...Fictional Folks ranking lower than a baron Did not especially intrigue Me, though I had been introduced...
...then thumb through the text, all 277 pages, back to front, then front to back- it makes no difference--stopping when I almost spot a good line, then abruptly quitting in disgust, convinced I've thrown away better poems...
...Whoever thought that vasectomies would catch on or that my wife, the one who limps, would marry a millionaire actor without talent and spend three months each year making porno movies for the American Red Cross...
...Poet-in-residence at Codwise-on-Hudson, editor of Regal Epiphany, and at 33 (he looks much older) already touted as "the heir to the confessional tradition of Placebo and Bootlick...
...To several mere knights...
...Essays due out in the spring...
...And three hosannas from Donald Hall, who now considers Gumfy as tops in the discursive lyric (there's market niche for you...
...Young Tory Much transatlantic visiting And always in the belter castlesThanks to Sir Walter Scott, Dumas, And other literary snobsMade bearable my otherwise Quite Spartan boyhood...
...Jay A. Blumenthal The Dust Jacket at Waldenbooks This got published'.' By the Oxford University Press...
...I smile, unaware of the succession, or the need for it...
...A Spandolini, a MacArthur, two Guggenheims...
...I pore down the jacket, absorbed by the brisk flow of credentials...
...Perhaps It was attraction of extremes: Plebeian I in all that blue Blood, swimming, diving, having one Whale (dolphin) of a time and saving Tale of Two Cities for the last...
...I shouldn't be amazed by the world's strangeness...
...Ron Overton Natch Point It's said Beckett in his endgame sat and watched tennis on tv singles I assume and the irony of zero being called love not lost on him I'm sure nor the rueful possibility of an eternal deuce Ron Overton On Larkin You knew to take nothing and make a poem of it was to find something worth the saying of it: the real rage of leaden days is seen not in these pages but the silence you knew between...
...Nine other collections...
...In almost democratic chapters...
Vol. 117 • November 1990 • No. 19
