A "mixed review" of my Night Season over at Galatea Resurrects 5. The review is reasonable enough; the parts that Manning objects to pretty much function as he says they do. I suppose the point of difference would be concerning the usefulness of those moments, which I would argue are useful. But of course I would think that since I wrote them!
Ultimately what anyone wants is their work to be read carefully, so hear hear.
3 comments:
Hi Mark,
Thanks for your understanding reaction to what I tried to make a more or less understanding review.
I would love to hear your take on those moments which, though we might agree on their function, might disagree on their usefulness.
Anyway, here's to critical accountability!
Hah. I don't think "jeopardous" is a word.
Note that he is a professor of rhetoric.
Anyway, I think your poetry rocks my socks off.
I'm not a professor of rhetoric, but a simple doctoral candidate in comparative literature.
But thanks for the ad hominem attack. Just because we have a slightly different opinion on Mark's book, which I did really appreciate by the way, which is in the review. Maybe you could have emailed me instead.
In any case, from the OED:
jeop·ard·ous –adjective
perilous; dangerous; hazardous; risky.
[Origin: 1425–75; late ME j(e)upartous, equiv. to j(e)upart(i) jeopardy + -ous -ous]
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