Miscellaneous news, some of which may be ridiculous

10 comments on “Miscellaneous news, some of which may be ridiculous”

1. Chris says:
   December 11th, 2008 at 9:24 am

   I find it strange that Christian Voice even knew the book existed. What kind of resources does an organization have to dedicate to ‘Media Monitoring’ before it hits a budget line for ‘Poetry Surveillance’?

2. David Nygren says:
   December 11th, 2008 at 9:31 am

   Patrick Jones = One Lucky Poet

3. Kathryn says:
   December 11th, 2008 at 10:13 am

   “The poems aren’t actually much good, they hardly rhyme, they rarely scan or have rhythm, but they possibly have enough profanity and references to female genitalia to get the literati excited.”

   This is insanely funny, no?

4. Paul Vermeersch says:
   December 11th, 2008 at 10:16 am

   Jones should send these nutcases a thank you note for all the free publicity. It’s sheer insanity. Why do they even care?

5. susan says:
   December 11th, 2008 at 10:20 am

   NOW I know what I’ve been doing wrong all these years! Sheesh. My next poetry book will be so erotic I’m getting hot just thinking about it!

6. George says:
   December 11th, 2008 at 10:20 am

   I think we’re all missing the main point here, which is that I deserve some sort of credit for being the first person on earth to use the phrase “jagged fuckstick of divine justice”. Unless it’s already in Jones’ book.

7. Paul Vermeersch says:
   December 11th, 2008 at 1:10 pm

   It is in his book. Page 16. But it hardly rhymes with anything.

8. Kathryn says:
   December 11th, 2008 at 4:46 pm

   It does have rhythm though. If a little staccato.

9. Matteus says:
   December 11th, 2008 at 7:57 pm

   The website you were wondering about is Hanzi Smatter but they seem to already have this story up.

   Both this and the tale of offensive poetry are hilarious.

   Thanks.

10. L S says:
    December 18th, 2008 at 12:20 am

    While it seems as though it’s a victory for poetry to get this kind of publicity (& no doubt attendant sales in the dozens, if not scores!) it’s really a case of “one giant leap for one poetry book, one whack in the ass with a soggy newspaper for poetry” situation, because the books plugged (semi-)inadvertently by the Christian right (I recall a similar kerfuffle in Canada about a decade ago when the Alberta Report sank its teeth — sorry, tooth — into another li’l smut-repository) are invariably meh at best and don’t spur any interest in the genre — in fact, merely confirm ingrained prejudices against modern po.

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