the origins of that distinctive voice and challenges its autobiographical sincerity as a form of artifice. At one point, he cites an early poem and takes issue with the fact that it "didn't ring clear in its flaw-rhythms--until I scraped down to the/rage-line." Elsewhere he repudiates both "the thousands of poems that get pared down to thin polite/columns of memory in writing workshops every summer" and "blunt confessional Punk/animations" meant to shock.from Barbara Carey: Toronto Star: Self-examination through verse
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