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“A rare dish is right for those who / have lain bandaged in a tomb for weeks”

April 3, 2008 at 1:42 am · Filed under Literature

(A Review by Karsten Piper of Corpus, poems by Michael Symmons Roberts.)

Pelt, salt, seeds, genes, chilly viscera, familiar scars, warm carnivorous feasting, smoking, sipping. Here is your body on the slab, and resurrected.

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  KP wrote @ April 3, 2008 at 2:04 pm

Thanks for the chance to speak up for a favorite poet, Abraham.

I hope you’ll all read this review (and any others Abraham posts) as a *recommendation* because, honestly, how many of you need to be warned off of poetry?

Karsten

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