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A:   Whether Bascal is a “great” or even a “good” poet is hardly a fair question.

Q:   But you’re a literature critic!

A:   Nevertheless.

Q:   Oh, don’t be tedious. We’re paying for this.

A:   He’s certainly a precocious poet—I don’t think anyone would dispute that. And if he were to publish pseudonymously, it might be possible after the fact to decouple his position from his creations. Failing that, I make no claims to impartiality, and am skeptical of those who do.

Q:   Do you like the poems?

A:   Oh, absolutely! We all do. But that’s the point, right? We can’t help it.


Critic Laureate Julia Aimes,

in a Q281 interview with Fusiliers magazine


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