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...Dubuque for whom The New Yorker Magazine is not edited, but where, ironically, the bulk of his work has appeared. Old-fashioned abstractions that have almost been jostled out of intellectual currency-words like humility, goodness, pride, honor and love-constantly appear in his work. This has baffled some readers dazzled by the deceptively brilliant surface texture and the sort of knowing social-insider's stylishness that will set a time period with: "Now that was the year when the squirrels were such a pest and everybody worried about cancer and homosexuality." One sentence like that...
...this species of splendiforous prose creeps in with high seriousness elsewhere in the magazine, only to halt the flow of plot and glut the reader's palate. Joe Porter has fairly garnished his "introduction to a novel" with passages like...
...observation of a son returned from school to the familiar, petty bitchinesses of his parents. Bloch infuses the trivial "stuff of life" that makes up his story with an unusual intensity. Yet he does not languish turgidly over details, a favorite indulgence of Porter and Mary Seager, forcing the reader to rush his eyes downward, hungry for a little less talk and more action...
Advocate poetry seems dedicated, for the most part, to a willful and unnecessary obscurity. A poet should only make demands on his reader for essential reasons, and he must offer something substantial for the time and energy that explication requires. Bob Grenier is a better translator than original poet. I prefer Doris Garter in the bath to Doris Garter exploring a religious cosmos. And Susan Rich surpasses other more galactic rumblings with a little poem (less disturbingly fastidious than her drawing) of an abandoned doll. Her subtle internal rhymings reveal a feeling for line that is also found in parts...
Expansiveness is characteristic of Rowse, who seems to live in a world of the superlative and the absolute. But these extravagant claims tend to make a reader dismiss the book completely when the boasts are not fulfilled. And while the book is not the key to Shakespeare's life and works that Rowse would have us believe, it is hardly the worthless drivel that his harsher critics profess...