News at Eleven: Here, from "Our Savage Art,"

is a taste of [William] Logan on the warpath: "The only way Ammons could have improved 'Ommateum' would have been to burn it"; "Almost everything Graham writes offers the swagger of emotion, pretentiousness by the barrelful and a wish for originality that approaches vanity--she's less a poet than a Little Engine that Could, even when it Can't"; or, on Billy Collins: "He's the Caspar Milquetoast of contemporary poetry, never a word used in earnest, never a memorable phrase. . . . If such poems look embarrassing now, what are they going to look like in 20 years?"

from The New York Times: Samurai Critic

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