When you’re selling a book of poetry and you offer a sample poem as an enticement, you will presumably pick one of the better poems in the collection, not one of the worse ones. And so if the sample poem is unbelievably wretched, that would tend to bode ill for the book as a whole.
"Austro" as in Rothbard and Wittgenstein, "Athenian" as in Aristotle and smashing-the-plutocracy.
About Roderick T. Long
The Empirical Me
I’m Roderick T. Long, Professor of Philosophy at Auburn University. I’m an Aristotelean/Wittgensteinian in philosophy and a left-libertarian market anarchist in social theory. (More about me here.) This blog, Austro-Athenian Empire, is a continuation of my earlier blog, archived here.
It’s products like this that give doggerel a bad name.
It reads like something a child might write…and that’s insulting some very talented juvenile poets.