Ozick Kicks

Choriamb, the best source for poetry news in the universe, quotes this amusing opening from Cynthia Ozick, written in retaliation for a negative review:

Stuck-up prose gets up your nose
Edge is what the wise guy knows.
What’s new is true, the rest is quaint.
What Trilling was is what you ain’t.

Nice job, Cynthia.
Who could put it pithier?