"If you can’t stomach the occasional reader disclosing that she doesn’t like your poems, well: There’s always law school." Michael Lista • Afterword "What I contend, along with Northrop Frye and W.H. Auden, is that negative reviewing does not enrich our literary culture: its alleged purpose can be accomplished with critical silence, and the harm it can cause — when we get it wrong — can be avoided." Jay Zwicky replies • Afterword

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