Interesting recaps of the Vargas silliness here and here. Thanks to Barbara Jane Reyes and Craig Santos Perez for raising substantive criticisms of the review. At this point, unless someone who's read Vargas' poems wants to engage the review, I plan on not talking about it anymore. "I haven't read him, but..." doesn't strike me as a viable starting point for a conversation, or as bringing much to the table at all.

Oh, and I really, really don't appreciate someone searching out my home address online so they can send me hate mail.