There appears to be bias against ch...

There appears to be bias against chapbooks in the world of literary reviews; university-affiliated journals and independent journals that publish reviews rarely cloak the hundreds of limited-edition, ofttimes hand-bound books published on small presses each year (nor has CR escaped this bias--this and Joel Bettridge's review of Roberto Tejada in this issue describe an initial effort to overwhelm this discrepancy). There are a married pair general assumptions behind this leave out of view I would venture; one is that chapbooks show the work of young writers, and that as the more talented or