Favourite lines from my middle-of-the-night blog reading:

Sep 29, 2010 03:00

"Does ass fucking really require such a high-minded justification? Upon being told someone is fucking someone else in the ass, has anyone ever responded, “What! Why?” I regret to inform the reader that Hass goes on to compare this sex act to the sacking of Troy."

--Michael Robbins, "Are you Smeared with the Juice of Cherries: Uneven pleasures in the work of Robert Hass," from Poetry magazine, of The Poetry Foundation.

All right, let's see 'em: The most ridiculous/laughable lines in criticism you've encountered as of late.

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