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Mina Loy


Communal Cot (detail), ca.1950

                                                                                   

               Gertrude Stein 

 


Curie
of the laboratory
of vocabulary
    she crushed
the tonnage
of consciousness
congealed to phrases
    to extract
a radium of the word


John Ashbery

  The New Spirit (excerpt) I thought that if I could put it all down, that would be one way. And next the thought came to me that to leave a...

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