A test for all you poetry lovers:
Without looking it up, do you know which poet called another "the Fabergé of modern American poetry"?
Can you name both?!
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Haha, yes, it was John Ashbery on James Merrill. Just read it in Doug Crase's wonderful remembrance of JA
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So did I. Such a great piece.
Both great poets. I'm just upset that I wasn't able to come up with something so deliciously bitchy!



