Alexey Korablyov Korablyov itibaren Barnesville, NC 28369، ایالات متحده آمریکا
Ack. It took me forever to get through this, and I still don't think I'll finish the last 30 pages. I have liked some of Norris's other books, but this one just fell so flat for me. I get it that she ran with a lot of literary luminaries, but it felt like a lot of name dropping. It would have been better if it were a more standard nonfiction account of the beginning of poetry arts administration rather than an awkward memoir hybrid that felt impersonal and distanced yet strangely self-obsessed. Compared to her other books, it wasn't even particularly well-written or moving. I might have given it two stars for some of the fun stories about poets I like, but the overall effect of the book was, for me, decidedly one-starred.