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[sid] => 152008
[catid] => 1
[aid] => mick
[title] => Sacrifice (The Critical Heart)
[time] => 2009-08-04 16:09:01
[hometext] => Poems within poems, one lain atop and wrapped about the next, are part and parcel of the poetic experience. A peeling of the layers may provide clarity--or rend the very heart at the center of an artistic enterprise.
[bodytext] => "Beauty" is arrogance, its guilt of which is proved by association [with]--Art, virtue's harbinger--[and] with the blade by which the accountable heart is cleft, its ventricles torn from one another (the organ, by words, in metaphor: it bleeds; while images: may be defined by the visceral splinter that remains), and we: are anesthetized, our ulcerated insides, cauterized, and we find ourselves, at once, and at last, drained: move on, our wound --which, after all, was never clearly defined-- our astrictive sacrifice. [comments] => 1 [counter] => 187 [topic] => 64 [informant] => Sagacious [notes] => [ihome] => 0 [alanguage] => english [acomm] => 0 [haspoll] => 0 [pollID] => 0 [score] => 10 [ratings] => 3 [editpoem] => 1 [associated] => [topicname] => ambiguous )
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