Counterpunching …

… Flowers of Evil — Partisan. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

Lehman eventually unearths the Moriarity behind this crisis, a critic named William Logan, and spends three pages totting up his crimes. Much though I’m bewildered by Lehman’s judgment elsewhere, by all evidence this William Logan is a thorough ruffian who may singlehandedly be responsible for the decline and fall of American poetry. An anathema (and a fatwa, for good measure) should long ago have been pronounced against this assassin, as Lehman calls him. Stop this villain, and American poetry will be hunky-dory