Terms and phrases deployed by Steven W. Beattie in “Fuck Books,” an essay in the Spring-Summer 2009 issue of CNQ (Canadian Notes & Queries), in which Beattie criticizes the works and the influence of Anne Michaels and Michael Ondaatje.

aggressively aphoristic
surfeit
of forced aphorisms
self-conscious
metaphors
poetic
wanking
defiantly
poetic verbiage
obsessed
with its own showiness
strangely
lifeless
accretion
of rococo metaphors
cascading
adjectival phrases
recondite
and ethereal
abstruse
and florid
aesthetic
disconnect
hermetic
artiness
Canlit
orthodoxy
the
oatmeal of world literature
deliberate,
ponderous prose
virtually
unreadable
more
monolithic kind of Canlit
the kind that makes one want
to scream, “