<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/77dc43cf-783c-4200-a802-eedf13d88248/CAE5642F-6E09-450A-A05A-B27B44256903/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://grahamnunn.wordpress.com/2009/06/15/further-questions-about-the-value-of-poetry-reviews/" href="http://grahamnunn.wordpress.com/2009/06/15/further-questions-about-the-value-of-poetry-reviews/" style="font-size: 11px;">grahamnunn.wordpress.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://grahamnunn.wordpress.com/2009/06/15/further-questions-about-the-value-of-poetry-reviews/"><H2>Further Questions About The Value of Poetry Reviews</H2></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://grahamnunn.wordpress.com/2009/06/15/further-questions-about-the-value-of-poetry-reviews/"><P>Don Share’s post on Harriet (a blog from the poetry foundation), <A target="_blank" href="http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2009/06/i-hate-poetry-reviews/">I Hate Poetry … Reviews?</A> raises some other interesting points and provides an excellent link to George Orwell’s article, <A target="_blank" href="http://www.george-orwell.org/Confessions_of_a_Book_Reviewer/0.html">Confessions of  Book Reviewer</A>. This is a brilliant read; his portrait of the book reviewer made me laugh until it hurt, and he goes on to offer an interesting solution to the reviewing debate:</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://grahamnunn.wordpress.com/2009/06/15/further-questions-about-the-value-of-poetry-reviews/"><P>“The best practice, it has always seemed to me, would be simply to ignore the great majority of books and to give very long reviews–1,000 words is a bare minimum–to the few that seem to matter… but the usual middle-length review of about 600 words is bound to be worthless …”</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://grahamnunn.wordpress.com/2009/06/15/further-questions-about-the-value-of-poetry-reviews/"><P>And while this has a lot of merit, particularly the 1000 words as a bare minimum for a review,  who decides which books matter? There are no easy answers …</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/CAE5642F-6E09-450A-A05A-B27B44256903/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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