Another Note

I am not writing about faith. I am concerned with the utility of symbol and metaphor; responding (in other than a visceral way--my first reaction) to Ira Sadoff's article in the American Poetry Review a couple of years ago.

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Heather McHugh has an interesting article in the December, 2007 Poetry ("The Fabric: A Poet's Vesalius," p. 243), concerning Titian's drawings for a text by the Belgian anatomist Vesalius.

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My name and public face may speak of who I once was, but of this my heart knows nothing.

-Wang Wei