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Writing as good as it gets .... Paul Rudnick in the NYTimes Book Review section of August 1st: Yet by all rights I should hate Rakoff’s newly published novel, “Love, Dishonor, Marry, Die, Cherish, Perish” — and not just because it’s so awful to contemplate a world without any more David Rakoff books, or any more David Rakoff. No, I should hate this book because it’s written entirely in verse, and I am a committed poetryphobe. I am a crass and ignorant person who considers all poetry, from Shakespeare on down, to be a complete hoax. Like a bore at a cocktail party, most poems discuss only the weather, their feelings and that little gray bird they saw on their way to work. As with yogurt and math, I’m convinced that anyone who claims to enjoy poetry is lying.
Posted on: Sat, 21 Sep 2013 22:17:02 +0000

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