The book’s out there, and it’s starting to get some heat. Writers, really famous ones, have things to say.

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 This book made me want to drink battery acid and sleep with whores

—Charles Bukowski

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 This is just to say
that this book really sucked.
—William Carlos Williams

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The book doesn’t contain multitudes,
but it didn’t kill me.
—Walt Whitman

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Thirteen Ways of Looking at Blas Manuel De Luna

I
He sucks.

II
Really sucks.

III
We’re talking world-class levels of suckiness.

IV
It must hurt to suck that much.

V
I mean, really, it’s embarrassing how much he sucks.

VI
Embarrassing for him.

VII
Embarrassing for me.

VIII
Embarrassing for poetry.

IX
Probably embarrassing for the world, in general.

X
I’m sure the universe isn’t too happy, either.

XI
Do you think he knows?

XII
Should somebody tell him?

XIII
No, not me. Somebody else.

—Wallace Stevens

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Bleak? I can out-bleak this guy with one traumatic event tied behind my back.
—Sylvia Plath

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The bitch can’t write.
—William Shakespeare

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This book made me want to drink battery acid and sleep with whores.
—Emily Dickinson

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