De gustibus non disputandum, of course. I was incensed by B. T. Shaw's review of THE BRICOLAGE OF KOTEGAESHI, not because she disliked the book (how would anyone not like this book?), but because she so willfully misunderstood and misrepresented it. She peremptorily dismissed the statement of poetics at the end of the book and consequently failed to understand the poems on their own terms. This was a failure as a critic on her part, not just a difference in taste, and the fatuous maleficence of it appalled and dismayed me. hwr
De gustibus non disputandum, of course. I was incensed by B. T. Shaw's review of THE BRICOLAGE OF KOTEGAESHI, not because she disliked the book (how would anyone not like this book?), but because she so willfully misunderstood and misrepresented it. She peremptorily dismissed the statement of poetics at the end of the book and consequently failed to understand the poems on their own terms. This was a failure as a critic on her part, not just a difference in taste, and the fatuous maleficence of it appalled and dismayed me. hwr
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