Dying for Beauty: Poems
Whether paying tribute to literary icons such as Walt Whitman and Sor Juana InA(c)s de la Cruz, or examining global and cultural degradation, Wronsky proves to be a poet of sharp wit and endearing wonder. The crowning jewel of "Dying for Beauty" is "Desdemona," a nearly book-length lyric that alternates between meditation and dramatization, between discourse and incantation. "I started out thinking I was writing an elegy for the earth - from my
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