Showing posts with label critic. Show all posts
Showing posts with label critic. Show all posts

April 16, 2012

March 18, 2012

Deceiving

Sometimes

sophistication

looks like

naivete.

— Joan Acocella, "Critic's Notebook: Heaven on Earth"
(New Yorker, March 5, 2012)

November 8, 2011

Critic

This reader's response to a prize-winning poem certainly goes for the poetic style too:

This poem smells like the sawdust
rising from a puddle of extinguished upchuck.

— Bonnie (reaction to "Likenesses")