Jill Jones said:
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>I recall in Anne Carson's book, Eros the Bittersweet, she wrote a short
>chapter on Sappho's fragment 31 - about a love triangle - looking at the
>geometric figure formed by the perceptions of the 'actors' (as she calls
>them) in the poem. The chapter is called Ruse - if that kind of thing
>interests you.
>
>It's a brilliant book, by the way, on many levels.
Totally. And a sign if one was needed that the essay can (if only
occasionally) be a poem itself . . .
Douglas Barbour
Department of English
University of Alberta
Edmonton Alberta Canada T6G 2E5
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People, people -
ten dead ducks' feathers
on beer can litter . . .
Winter
will change all that
Lorine Niedecker
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