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Terms and phrases deployed by Steven W. Beattie in “Fuck Books,” an essay in the Spring-Summer 2009 issue of CNQ (Canadian Notes & Queries), in which Beattie criticizes the works and the influence of Anne Michaels and Michael Ondaatje.
aggressively aphoristic surfeit of forced aphorisms self-conscious metaphors poetic wanking defiantly poetic verbiage obsessed with its own showiness strangely lifeless accretion of rococo metaphors cascading adjectival phrases recondite and ethereal abstruse and florid aesthetic disconnect hermetic artiness Canlit orthodoxy the oatmeal of world literature deliberate, ponderous prose virtually unreadable more monolithic kind of Canlit the kind that makes one want to scream, “Fuck books!”