![]() ![]() Auden wrote an unbelievably filthy poem about an anonymous blow job.Īccording to the editor’s note, Auden wrote the poem in 1948, and copies were circulated among friends and fans for years, before Ed Sanders (of the Fugs) printed an unauthorized version in 1965. ![]() He shifted his limbs in assent.”) We feel compelled to reprint the entire thing, just because we never had any idea that W.H. It’s sort of great, and also sort of cheesy and awful, and also occasionally hilarious. Like a Penthouse Forum letter, except in lively verse, and with no women. It is really, really, really, really dirty. Auden’s “The Platonic Blow,” which Chiasson can only call “is the dirtiest verse written since Rochester - I can’t even talk about it here.” After calling John Updike’s “Fellatio” “perhaps the worst poem ever written on any subject,” Chiasson gleefully quotes the poem: “It is beautiful to think / that each of these clean secretaries / at night, to please her lover, takes / a fountain into her mouth.” But Chiasson teases us with his description of the dirtiest poem in the anthology, W.H. The highlight of this weekend’s New York Times Book Review is Dan Chiasson’s highly entertaining review of The Best American Erotic Poems, a new anthology of humpy verse edited by David Lehman. ![]()
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