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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: âFlaring well gas night and day, / towers rise as if to say, / Pollution can be beautiful.â Bachâs final fugue informs all of nature. Villon is admonished by an aging courtesan. Aristotle finds âDemagogues are the insects of politics. / Like water beetles they stay afloat / on surface tension, they taxi on iridescence.â And his afterlife: âWhen three-headed Cerberus greeted him / Socrates replied: I wonât need / an attack dog, thank you. I married one.â |
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