Bizarro

"Tuma alludes to a companion anthology, Modern American Poetry, edited by Cary Nelson. The contents of the other half of this pincer movement are instructive. For example, Ron Silliman gets more space than Wallace Stevens and Elizabeth Bishop. The American poet and critic William Logan, writing in Parnassus, had great sport with this, pointing out that those who make such choices lack the fear of God. They also lack a sense of humour, and it's the deep blankness in that area which makes Tuma's anthology such a laugh."



http://www.poetrysociety.org.uk/review/pr91-2/tuma.htm

Well, at this rate, El Bishop would most definitely be in my school with that quip about the inferior glue there in Santo. Geez. What is hilarious is the notion of ole S stud there in his steel wool underwear.