Carmine Starnino on his poetry collection This Way Out
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"Good reviewing," writes Carmine Starnino in the not-to-be-missed introduction to his A Lover\\u2019s Quarrel Essays and Reviews, "... reviewing that believes in literary failure \\u2013 is invaluable because by calling one poem good and another less good, and adducing clear reasons for those claims, it offers one writerly interpretation of a particular achievement, and invites the reader to sympathetically tag along; his or her senses momentarily borrowing the reviewer\\u2019s responses."
We met in a somewhat echoey corner of the National Gallery in Ottawa to hold This Way Out up to scrutiny, naming names: which of his poems are good, which bad. In addition: who are the best and worst contemporary Canadian poets. Listen as we walk the walk of A Lover\\u2019s Quarrel.
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