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The Insanity of Empire

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    …poems protesting the Iraq War, The Insanity of Empire (2004). Bly dubbed the poems in Turkish Pears in August (2007) “ramages,” referencing rameau, the French word for branch; they each contain 85 syllables and focus on a certain vowel sound. Talking into the Ear of a Donkey (2011) consists of…

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