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Cleopatra Mathis

Cleopatra Mathis

Without sentiment

by Keith Taylor

posted 2/1/2006

In her new collection of poems, White Sea, Cleopatra Mathis writes, "I have lost my killer instinct / for beauty, for embellishing and relishing / the art of it." She has come to this place — the one where she refuses the easy consolations of the beautiful — the hard way. Although several losses and illnesses are suggested in the poems, the

 
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