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Robyn Art's "Vestigial Portions of the Dead Sea Scrolls"

Robyn Art's "Vestigial Portions of the Dead Sea Scrolls"
[ Featured Underground Poet ] - 01.31.07 - by: Marie Lecrivain (Get Underground)

Robyn Art's Vestigial Portions of the Dead Sea Scrolls is a not-quite-convincing collection of poems loosely constructed, and then presented as one long book-length poem. I say "not quite," because the poems do not quite fit together, but this is the trick of the post-post-modern poet: to hammer the square pegs into the round holes and declare that "it fits," splinters and all.

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Catchy title, but the poems appear to have nothing to do with the Dead Sea Scrolls.