The Laxness Monster
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The Laxness Monster;or,I Be Singer;or,Saul Bellow, Well Met;or,Inexplicable Spending on Ionian Whites and Goldings;or,Oe Vey!
You'reAn obscureSlavNobody ever heard of?
The Paul AnkaOf Sri LankaThe torpors of whose serendipitous pantoums equalThose of The Odyssey: A Modern Sequel?
DarioFo?The OliviaDe Havilland of BoliviaLocally notorious for turgid verseWorseEven than that of whoever it was was a.k.a. Saint-John Perse?
Talk mysterious?Take yourself too serious?Relax. Don't you realizeYou're probably next in line for the Nobel prize?
What lies East of Eden?Sweden. [End Page 370]
William Harmon, the James Gordon Hanes professor in the humanities at UNC, retired in 2008. His recent publications include A Handbook to Literature (12th edition) in 2011 and The Poetry Toolkit in 2012.
