I have my doubts as to whether anyone's been reading my blogging. That's fine. I'm used to not being read. I write poetry, after all.
I just want to say in closing (I first typed "losing" -- har,har) that I like the Best American Erotic Poems as a book a whole lot because it makes me think about what I consider Erotic and what I deem merely graphic. Besides, it’s a good read, that’s for sure, and that’s nothing to be taken for granted. There is also Lehman’s wide scope. He’s produced a fine and various collection, and it contains tons of audacious poems that I am very happy to get to know. I’ve also been exposed, on reading the volume, to many writers I was heretofore unfamiliar with, and for that I am grateful. I think editors of anthologies (especially Lehman) are to be commended . . . hell, it takes a lot of work to put a book like this together. Such books help to make us think. And let us never, as readers, take such gifts for granted.
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