How to praise praise

I found, while Googleing during my short lunch break today, a very interesting (and timely, for me anyway) article on Slate by Ron Rosenbaum re: blurbing:

I believe I've discovered a previously unrecognized genre of contemporary writing that deserves commendation for its distinctiveness and frequent excellence. It's practiced mainly by contemporary poets, but it's not poetry. In fact—at least for me—it's much better than most contemporary poetry, in the sense that it's much more readable, much better crafted, and often beautifully compressed in a dazzling haikulike way.

It's something that gives people like me who don't find themselves drawn to much contemporary poetry a sense of the verbal facility of contemporary poets—and contemporary poetry critics—when they're writing prose about contemporary poetry.

Though I'm still a bit away from having proofs to correct and send to potential blurbers, I couldn't help but be interested in this little article. A lot of my friends who are themselves incredible poets and dedicated contemporary poetry readers say that they don't buy books based on a blurb, but I'll confess to having bought many books of poetry by poets I had no previous knowledge of based on a blurb by a poet I trust, know, or am familiar with. Who knows. An interesting topic nonetheless, I suppose.