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From: The American Poetry Review
Date: 20050701
Author:Rudman, Mark

 
"There are blows in life, so powerful ... I don't know!" 
--Cesar Vallejo, trans. Clayton Eshleman 

I DIDN'T WANT TO, BUT FOR REASONS THAT will become abundantly clear, I'm forced to begin at the beginning, at the sources that gave rise to this writing. In the summer following my mother's death, with my son for the first time, at the age of sixteen, safely stowed in a summer camp, my wife and I headed to Italy for a breather. Other losses had also occurred. At some point, we were staying in Lazio to be within proximity of both Rome and several Etruscan sites. I began to feel a ...

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