> I wonder about the title, since the black and the white and the stone
never appear in the poem. I think there's a kind of oblique juxtaposition
of Vallejo/black/stone with Paris/white/stone.
Could be. I've always taken it that he meant the poem was like a cairn, the
simplest form of monument.
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