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- Author: John Barr
- Publisher: Red Hen Press
- Year: 2018
- ISBN: 9781597097567
- ISBN-10: 159709756X
- ISBN-13: 9781597097567
- Format: ePub
- Language: English
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In John Barr's poems, the ancient masters encounter the modern world. Dante on a beach in China beholds the Inferno: "Flaring well gas night and day, / towers rise as if to say, / Pollution can be beautiful." Bach's final fugue informs all of nature. Villon is admonished by an aging courtesan. Aristotle finds "Demagogues are the insects of politics. / Like water beetles they stay afloat / on surface tension, they taxi on iridescence." And his afterlife: "When three-headed Cerberus greeted him / Socrates replied: I won't need / an attack dog, thank you. I married one."
- Author: John Barr
- Publisher: Red Hen Press
- Year: 2018
- ISBN: 9781597097567
- ISBN-10: 159709756X
- ISBN-13: 9781597097567
- Format: ePub
- Language: English English
In John Barr's poems, the ancient masters encounter the modern world. Dante on a beach in China beholds the Inferno: "Flaring well gas night and day, / towers rise as if to say, / Pollution can be beautiful." Bach's final fugue informs all of nature. Villon is admonished by an aging courtesan. Aristotle finds "Demagogues are the insects of politics. / Like water beetles they stay afloat / on surface tension, they taxi on iridescence." And his afterlife: "When three-headed Cerberus greeted him / Socrates replied: I won't need / an attack dog, thank you. I married one."
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