Wednesday 3 September 2014

Thom Gunn and the MSI FM2 A75IA E53 Mini ITX AMD Motherboard

Poetry, Thom Gunn said, is like a motherboard: you can’t write a reliable review of it till you’ve had it a year or so. Well, those weren’t his exact words. And in fact more like words from a review on Overclock.net of the MSI FM2 A75IA E53 Mini ITX AMD Motherboard but still, you get the idea. No because Gunn quit scribbling reviews for Yale Review because he became “dissatisfied with the business of making comparatively fast judgements on contemporary poets… there were books that I simply changed my mind about later on.” There was a man who knew his stuff. No overclocking the books for him, oh no. Longevity, endurance, and enough DDRM slots for modest expansion, that’s what makes a poem.


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