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A couple of weeks ago, the site got picked up by Metafilter, in a
favorable but undercommented thread. I happen to be member of MeFi, not longstanding necessarily but
standing long enough, and I thought it best to lay low and not bring attention to myself. Now, I wish I had.
Interestingly enough, the biggest complaint seems to be that the dramatic, radio version of "Naming of Parts" is jarring to folks who were already familiar with the poem.
1536. L.E. Sissman, "Late Empire." Halcyon 1, no. 2 (Spring 1948), 54.
Sissman reviews William Jay Smith, Karl Shapiro, Richard Eberhart, Thomas Merton, Henry Reed, and Stephen Spender.
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