John Steinbeck, Master of Terror.

Lit-hist progresses by redrawing the canon. For the
Ur-Flarf Progenitor, i nominate "Ern Malley". (Even
Ashbery pays tribute to him.) I can see a clear lineage* through Spicer to the
present-day epigones... Yes, Poetry ends like a rope.

Another "damned poet"--born with twelve fingers. On translating Ady into Russian. A poem translated into Esperanto. A few English translations.

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*Not to mention the ersatz computer poetry reviewed here.