Showing posts with label Lehman. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Lehman. Show all posts

Sunday, March 16, 2008

Check out Dan Chiasson's very funny and sharp review of David Lehman's The Best American Erotic Poems. Here's the money shot: 

"… precious space is devoted to John Updike’s 'Fellatio,' perhaps the worst poem ever written on any subject, which begins (reader, I kid you not): 'It is beautiful to think / that each of these clean secretaries / at night, to please her lover, takes / a fountain into her mouth.'"