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INNUENDI :: 2 :: [by Anthony Madrid]
1. Take a look at these familiar lines from Yeats’s “Leda and the Swan”: A shudder in the loins engenders there The broken wall, the burning roof and tower And Agamemnon dead. …
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“My Parents Fled the Country” [by Asa Drake]
But only for two years. She was in jail for only two years. It was her childhood dream. They called her on 9 /11. It was in the Amazon But only for two years.…
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58 BITS FROM ROBERT FERNANDEZ’S *WE ARE PHARAOH* [selected by Anthony Madrid]
(Fernandez, Robert. We Are Pharaoh. Canarium Books, 2011. ISBN: 978-0-9822376-5-6. $14.) ✷ the flesh calls back its bulls ✷ This is also the context in which childhood attempts to recur. ✷ Avoid the participle…
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Shelley’s “Ozymandias” on “Mad Men”
The surprising thing about the line from Shelley's sonnet quoted on tonight's episode ("Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!") is not that Mr. Ginsberg knows the poem but that art director Stan,…
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“The Rape of Persephone” [by Justine Bienkowski]
Before I even cut you open, IImagine stripping you, revealing chastePersephone: a gleam of white, a sighOf scarlet beads, of blood. Beware! Make haste,For Hades rides to watch her suckle seeds.It must be virgin…
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NOTEBOOK: INNUENDI (by Anthony Madrid)
1. I have this idea for a new kind of review. Call it a “gallery” review. Just a long list of quotations, individual lines mostly. Maybe a few two-fers and three-fers. At any rate:…
