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Ian Ferguson, another Lecock winner and kind "blurber" for
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Ian Ferguson, another Lecock winner and kind "blurber" for
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Ian Ferguson, another Lecock winner and kind "blurber" for
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One can tell if a blurber gave a close reading to a manuscript -- a give-away against a close reading is if the blurber uses the blurbing opportunity to fight one of the many tedious battles in the poetry world, e.g. something that starts, "If you think New Formalism is dead....." bla bla.
Archive 2010-02-01 2010
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One can tell if a blurber gave a close reading to a manuscript -- a give-away against a close reading is if the blurber uses the blurbing opportunity to fight one of the many tedious battles in the poetry world, e.g. something that starts, "If you think New Formalism is dead....." bla bla.
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Yes, I look for blurbs on book jackets, but I take them with a grain of salt, because there have been times I wondered if the “blurber” read the same book I bought.
Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » Blurbs: the acquisition and effects thereof 2008
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Never mind that my blurber confessed to having read only half the book.
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What matters more -- who the blurber is, or what the blurber says?
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Anyone can write a generic-sounding blurb, and they are lousy unless the blurber is so famous that his or her fame is the point.
Booking Through Thursday: Blurble, Blurble, Blurble « Exile on Ninth Street 2009
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I'm a way better blurber than the other blurbers who are just doing a favor for a friend or as my darker side suggests, have a deal with their publisher to blurb books being promoted by the house.
Blurbmonger 2009
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