{"text":"Our contempt for any particular poem must be perfect, be total, because only a ruthless reading that allows us to measure the gap between the actual and the virtual will enable to to experience, if not a genuine poem—no such thing—a place for the genuine, whatever that might mean.","author":"Ben Lerner","tags":["actual","contempt","experience","gap","genuine","measure","particular","perfect","poem","reading","ruthless","total","virtual"],"id":273886,"author_id":"Ben+Lerner"}