Jimmy Fallon's children's book, Your Baby's First Word Will Be DADA, is #8 on Amazon's best seller list and Despite reviews like this: I guess not everyone gets the joke. Spoiler Dad: teach your baby to say Dada before saying Mama. That's it, that's all the book is supposed to be about.
Hardly surprising. It's something I'm directly attacking in my MA dissertation, if you don't understand something by T.S. Eliot, you must be at fault - because it's T.S. Eliot. If you don't understand something in Simon Armitage, it's because he's a terrible poet. Ok, that's actually the case with someone like Carol Anne Duffy, who I don't think can even write, and it's not like Simon Armitage doesn't produce rubbish (why turn Homer into a dramatic dialogue?) but still, he's a decent enough poet.
