Louis armand the combinations5/9/2023 ![]() ![]() This is followed later in the poem with mention of 'hunched shadows/ of the end-of-the-world coming towards us' and concluding with: ![]() Parrot to tell the story of contrition its How effete your singing voice is – the mannequinĬandour you say is the best policy a trained With the blood of old movies we hoped to outlive. To begin with injustice is inseparable from life – smeared The book opens with the title piece, and the first stanza seems pointedly to indicate the sort of hell the reader is going to be led through by this book's 'story of contrition': And, although the titles of these poems are packed with references to other elements of culture, particularly obscure ones – there are several, such as 'washington crossing the delaware', that derive their title from a painting – the connection between title and piece is connotative rather than denotative. It is also an understatement of the viciousness of some of this poetry. ![]() The title of this book is an early manifestation of its endless intertextual referencing, as well as one example of the author's restrained penchant for relatively silly puns. ![]()
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