XHIN (VENT) ~

PETER SCHJELDAHL ~

R E A D      M E

I remember Schjeldahl's poetry in the late 60s

one of the many poetry brats of the young

and zestful New York Poets scene

(after Ashbery, O'Hara etc)

— the poems were puzzle pieces

and since then, the art criticism has been

anything but. I followed his art writing

in the Village Voice, 7 Days, and for years

now in the New Yorker. It's much better fare than

the poetry the magazine now publishes.

A note on the book — Schjeldahl takes care of

his job and comes through marvelously. The book

design is a bit bland, though brightened 
in a de Kooning yellow, but too bad being

Abrams, an art house, they didn't slip in a feature

of art work, artists photographs etc.

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