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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=460347" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Zeke Snirer, poetry critic</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Zeke Snirer.<br>he’s young. ish.<br>he’s got something to offer the world: <br>he’s the best judge of poetry. ever.<br>this is his sincere opinion.<br>so he’s obliged to tell you. often.<br>in case you missed it.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">he’ll take on any other poet.<br>invited or not.<br>especially celebrated ones.<br>he’ll even interrupt their own poetry readings<br>tell them how bad they are<br>and offer to read his own poems<br>to prove to the audience<br>what poetry should be.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">he’ll grade Shakespeare’s sonnets<br>and tell you the very few<br>which are nearly as good as his own -<br>perhaps, just perhaps, better in some ways<br>though of course not in others<br>if he were interested, <br>he would grade you Krishna, Moses, Buddha, Christ, Mohammed, <br>and himself, <br>if he got into that line of business.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">he’s a great spectator sport –<br>you can read him now on the internet –<br>if you like that sort of thing<br>and if you’re not one of his punchbags</div><div style="margin:10px 0">for he’s like a boxer who announces a title fight<br>(to which he’s not entitled) <br>against a heavyweight opponent<br>(whom he hasn’t actually invited) : <br>then in the ring, it’s him<br>and a punchbag with his opponent’s name on it, <br>he hits it for a round or two, <br>claims a knock-out, <br>awards himself the title.<br>and afterwards says the other guy’s a coward<br>for not being there in person..</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Bur does his abrasive whizz-kid act<br>aid poetry itself? does it shatter<br>the undeserved reputation, <br>the accepted status of the famed, <br>the thoughtless infill of the poetry<br>that sounds like poetry, but is no more than that? <br>a fresh breeze blowing through<br>the stale and dusty air of the pedant’s library <br>in the Creative Writing staffroom of the University of Academe? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">or would a poet who believed completely in himself<br>be content just to offer us his finest poetry, <br>and let us recognise it for ourselves; <br>and put aside this damning of all others? <br>even if he tells us quietly (as Shnirer does) <br>that ‘we’ will be reading him above all else<br>in five hundred years of poetry? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">I wonder – deep inside this combative assailant, <br>Defender of the Faith and of the Muse, <br>is he so devoted to poetry<br>that he just can’t bear<br>anything to be written that falls short<br>of what he thinks is worthy of the Muse? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">or does he really hate poetry<br>for allowing others to partake of it? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">whichever it is, he’s not in doubt<br>that he’d be the best judge of that, and<br>you better believe it.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Michael+Shepherd">Michael Shepherd</a><div class=q>
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he’s young. ish.
he’s got something to offer the world: 
he’s the best judge of poetry. ever.
this is his sincere opinion.
so he’s obliged to tell you. often.
in case you missed it.

he’ll take on any other poet.
invited or ..."></div>
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