“I’m not, I’ll freely admit, the world’s biggest fan of conceptual poetry; but I’ve recently been rather amused by the hoo-ha about in American literary magazines and blogs of late. It’s accused of being all concept and no affect: all head and no heart if you like. Which strikes me as odd because those poets conceptual poets I do like, Caroline Bergvall and Christian Bok, don’t strike me that way at all. I haven’t read much of Kenneth Goldsmith either, but he strikes me as a profoundly comic writer as much as he’s anything else.” More from Steven Waling at BrandosHat.