Word: polson
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Meter Steeplechase--1. Robert Dackowski, Navy, 8:44.06; 2. Tyno Carter, Army, 8:46.32; 3. Andre Polson, Dartmouth...
...person she deals successfully with complex, convoluted images without losing the thread of her poetry. In "The Coddling Moth," she successfully creates a complicated, sensual comparison between a man and a moth, follows the moth into an apple grove, and leaps to agricultural science, throwing in the sarcastic lines "Polson pussy/synthesized and bottled." Then she returns to the man the poem describes, without ever confusing her images. In another poem, she addresses a snake, mocking and idolizing until the snake becomes an ideal woman. And the section of poems called "Talking That Talk" contrasts her voice against those of others...
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