The Clairvoyant Zoopraxiscope

Adding to the mix Poems in Spanish by Paul Hoover. The "hook" of the collection is that the poems all sound as if they were translated from Spanish. When Kenneth Koch was my teacher, 18 years ago, he used to hold that tone up as a standard, so I guess the book isn't as exciting to me as it could be. Still there are some very smart, even "cool" sentences here, such as:

Nothing is less erotic than a paragraph.

Poetry is desire having words with itself.

Nothing is worse than a reasonable poem.

The century is thick with history
and the worst intentions.