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Fu Manchu's avatar

i don’t know how much of this works but i do know what i like and when something kicks the dirt up inside my tired soul. this did it. excellent

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Corie Feiner's avatar

"the pollution of the cities

mixed with the odor of rotting souls"

This part is particularly Rimbaud-esque.

I love the personification of poetry with the essence of Rimbaud's take on life. Also, the repetition works particularly well. The debunking of the industrialized version of the professional poet career path was also... awesome.

It reminds me of when Galway Kinnell was my professor and he told me to not follow the MFA to professor path... he said to explore, love poetry, life my life, and see how it all goes.

"Hard hitting" is a right on way to describe Lerner's work!

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