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proximoception) wrote2008-12-18 06:55 am
proximoception) wrote2008-12-18 06:55 am
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Blurbs I've found memorable:
for Elizabeth Bishop's Complete Poems, 1927-1979:
"Of all the splendid and curious works belonging to my time, these are the poems that I love best and tire of least. And there will be no others."--James Merrill (best)
for The Voice That Is Great Within Us: American Poetry of the Twentieth Century [1970]:
"Not only the best on its period, I think, but is even perhaps safe from the competition of rivals."--Robert Lowell (worst)
for A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man:
"A truly extraordinary novel."--Ewan Mcgregor (Mcgreg'riest)
There's a godawful one by Norman Mailer that's eluding me, for some counterculturish book, maybe by Burroughs or Pynchon.
for Elizabeth Bishop's Complete Poems, 1927-1979:
"Of all the splendid and curious works belonging to my time, these are the poems that I love best and tire of least. And there will be no others."--James Merrill (best)
for The Voice That Is Great Within Us: American Poetry of the Twentieth Century [1970]:
"Not only the best on its period, I think, but is even perhaps safe from the competition of rivals."--Robert Lowell (worst)
for A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man:
"A truly extraordinary novel."--Ewan Mcgregor (Mcgreg'riest)
There's a godawful one by Norman Mailer that's eluding me, for some counterculturish book, maybe by Burroughs or Pynchon.
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Dylan Thomas on Flann O'Brien's At Swim Two Birds:
"This is just the book to give your sister if she's a loud, dirty, boozy girl!" [Exclamation point is DT's.]
How about this for over-blown:
New York Magazine on Infinite Jest:
"Spectacularly good... It's as though Paul Bunyan had joined the NFL or Wittgenstein had gone on Jeopardy. Infinite Jest is that colossally disruptive... Next year's book awards have been decided."