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by ellipsis

Posted to Poetry on 2003-06-11 20:30:00

Parent message is 466209
opens and then seals with sentences that phrase ideas and feelings that i’ve not seen phrased so well before. “dying of beauty” and “living and dying might be the same thing” are connected by fluid beauty that flows from one line to the next, and the division of lines is subtle enough to allow a slight shift in speed and rhythm. the frantic structure, presented by an overall somber poetic voice, creates a whirr of dull cacophony that melts with the ooze of words from the first striking sentence, all the way to the last striking sentence.

yeah, i think i’d call it a nice one.