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Ode to Italian fruit. (poem)

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From: The Southern Review
Date: 19970922
Author:Hamby, Barbara

I am not Charlotte Bronte because I would have died already in childbirth, the baby dead, too. No, I am in Italy, using birth control, a type invented by the Egyptians, a scooped-out orange half, the hemisphere of rind a barrier against the sperm, but I digress, not an unusual occurrence, and I wonder what the Brontes have to do with anything, but later I learn I have been involved in a Bronteesque collaborazione with the facts, creating my own world, with thieves, turncoats, poetry, danger, and above all good eats

as when in Torre a Mare, a beach town south of Bari, a ...

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