Machine generated contents note: Grand Pause. My Theme is Polyphemus -- American Sonnet -- Acts -- Arc -- Paleontology -- Disquisition on a Fibonacci Sequence in G Major -- The Main Event -- Underworld -- Revolution 2 Knock Off -- Revolution 2 Gun -- Our Last Parade -- On the Waterfront -- Happy -- ROMANCE IN F MINOR -- Remembrance Tree -- In a Mist -- Paintings of the Back Yard -- The Bees -- September 2020 -- A New York Poet -- The Hawk -- Vltava -- Romance in F Minor -- The Home -- THE BELSHAZZAR MUSEUM -- Music Theory -- Take 15 -- Nature Morte -- Constance -- The Falls -- Totem Pole -- Dearest Clara -- Apotheosis of the Hirsute Acolytes -- Body and Soul -- Lafitte's from a Pencil Sketch -- Big Star -- Death of a Clown -- Sessions -- SUNLIGHT IN THE COURTYARD -- The Great Fire -- February -- Lockdown -- Distance -- Mornings -- Building the Firewood Lean-to -- Letter at Empire's End -- The Basilisk -- Parade Dust -- Grand Pause.
Summary:
"In the Basilisk, Rick Mullin offers a quarantine diary with poems dating back to 2017. A spirit of interiority prevails. Yet in these 15-line sonnets, one will find the heart of a doomed clown, the terrible eye of an airborne hawk, and the sweeping gesture of an empire in decline. Lockdown is a metaphor after the fact, constraint a paradox in poems that confess a peculiar faith in memory's hidden design"-- Provided by publisher.
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