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Free Lunch #32 | |
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Earlier reviewers of Free Lunch have dwelt on the masthead statement that subs are free to serious poets in USA. Poets are invited to send in poems and enquire. It seems that the editor wishes to separate poetry readers who have to pay from the writers who have to prove calibre for their free lunch subscription. A novelty deviating from the norm of rewarding published poets with free copies, or one-off payments. It is, indeed, A Poetry Miscellany reflecting the rather sweeping opinions of the editor, Ron Offen: most contemporary American poets might be derided as group of ME-generation egoists.He hopes to impede this in the next issue by disallowing first-person pronouns in poetry in #33 excluding persona poems. Not to my taste are a few poems, one taking the mickey out of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, but hardly a elaborated pastiche, in the group PERRY MASON CHIMERAS: How do I love bullet holes? Let me count the ways. I love the chumps and poor kids and slight Domes a gun can reach . . .ADMINISTRATIUM by Lenny Emmanuel is cleverly wrought (a playful skit on bureaucracy as a notion of small-particle physics): Without electrons, Administratium is seemingly inert, and is detected only indirectly as it impedes every reaction with which it comes into contact.The 4-line FREEDOM OF SPEECH starting off Billy went down the rank last night, smashing up Paki cabsdraws attention to known actions of morons. A blurb quote below that the author writes with the startling freedom and grace of a kite flyingmay play havoc with readers' reconciliation processes and lead one to query editorial wisdom in arranging the particular page. The winning poem of the Italian Cuisine Poem Contest sponsored by Barilla America is LET THE TOMATOES COME TO YOU, who also provided prize money and arranged readings. A novel enterprise. | ||
| reviewer: Eric Ratcliffe. |