Monday, August 29, 2005

Rue Hazard:--Latta's back!!

"Reading against one's clique--that is, omnivorously, unhesitantly, exceedingly--is the sine qua non of any robust criticism (or its recent simulacrum of "author-divvying") or poetry writing. Part of the job description. To constitute it as a particular "project" (donc, "admirable," donc, "worthy of our attention") smacks, yes, of dilettantism, attending schematically to a superficies. Gourmandizing. "