In Rapsodia 17, fall 2017, a long excerpt from my fash-fiction novel, Suicide by Language.
In Rapsodia 16, summer 2017, my poem, “The Valla Problemata.”
“The Valla Problemata” is wantonly based upon the life of the Italian Renaissance humanist, Lorenzo Valla. Here is an excerpt —
V. practiced ventriloquism
by talking with figs
in his mouth.
His wealthy father
said, “That is impolite.”
He thought to spit
them out,
but thinking twice, he swallowed hard. . . .
V. is doing Mahler,
V. is doing Liszt,
V. has little Timmy on his hip.
Timmy says all men
are come-again
& Guinness’s the
water of life.
Timmy says the Irish
have the gift of the song.
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