First up, a few links:
Jeremy's teacher doesn't appreciate his work, but I think he could get a few reading gigs out of it.
A list of poet-lawyers. Go, my people, go!
Am I the only one who doesn't think this sounds like Ashbery? It sounds like a lang-po devotee trying to skewer Ashbery. Or maybe it is Ashbery, trying to be more lang-po? It's hopeless, dude. Swim with your own school.
Finally, this guy is totally stealing my fake-blurb poems idea. I still can't believe how vacuous blurbs are; they're the linguistic equivalent of farting. I suppose I shouldn't say that, lest I scare away whatever persons might be convinced to write me blurbs in the far-off and entirely suppositional event of my publishing a book. But then, whenever I have put out a little something for friends, I have, like Whitman, written my own laudatory quotations. These include such gems as:
"The majesty of her language is at once Biblical and modern, simple and profound, musical and humble, like a selection from a hymnal. That's why I'm working quotes into the State of the Union address." -Bush Administration speechwriter, on condition of anonymity.
"This book, apparently written out of pure love of writing, and without any profit motive, completely obliterates my ability to think. Without a law-and-economics angle, I am adrift in a sea of confusing conjectures and absurd rationales. An almost metaphysical dread wraps me like a cowl. Please. Make it stop. I'll pay you. As in fact I must." -Judge Richard A. Posner, Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals.
"I'm totally cribbing off this chick once I get off my 80s kick." -Jewel, chanteuse.
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