This Sunday, Dan Chiasson reviewed the newly published Best American Erotic Poems in the New York Times. His verdict:
The body parts alone oppress you: lips, testicles, shoulders, eyes,
over and over again until you would rather inhabit some spirit realm
where bodies are outlawed.
Got
it. Erotic poetry anthologies=tiring. But more importantly, we learned
of W.H. Auden's poem "The Platonic Blow" about...exactly that, and so
dirty Chiasson "can't even talk about it here." New York Magazine's Vulture blog reprinted the Auden poem too dirty to review. Our favorite bits below:
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