I told Alan that when I was general editor of the U of Michigan Press’s Poets on Poetry series,
I offered to publish Richard Howard’s Collected Blurbs. He liked the idea. Then we played
a game of comparative blurbs. Alan won.
“A Coney Island of the groin, Angkor Wat of the eyelash, So Much to Do pulls pranks
on itself, sets up daily monuments to Meaning and Emotion only to leap over them.
Alan Ziegler is full of it, Life, that is–and sprays his talent and love liberally on the faces
of somnambulists and lost Cultural Attachés.” >>>
“these prose poems are strikingly Schubertian, indeed, in their economy, their easy
invocation of the pleasures of abjection, the Schadenfreude of stifling interiors
(Washington Heights Biedermeier) and equally murderous exteriors as well
— the street-smarts that turn so rapidly to superhighway pile-ups…” >>>
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