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...Vliet's Water and Stone is a deceptively quiet collection of near, image-rich work, largely what might be described as observations ("In a Photograph by Brady") or apercus ("The Shade," "Girls on Saddleless Horses"). There is also, incidentally, some particularly chilling cancer imagery in various places ("...cobalt's/basilisk stare, the destroyed blood"; "the crab/under the heart, the thickening node"); and the death-soaked title work, a sort of Japanese No drama, is frighteningly memorable...
Marino Marini's entry was Cavaliere, a horse and rider that appeared to have just paused in the middle of a saddleless, bridleless journey. The horse, whose plump body and delicate, spindly legs were more Chinese than European, stood with its neck stretched straight out; the flowing horizontal from its muzzle to its tail was unbroken except by the rider, who looked both babyish and brave-lonely, puzzled and somehow heroic...
...cowed citizens and their ferociously armed conquerors. Some of the bandits were described as "swathed in cartridge belts up to the eyes," and "jingling with as many as three rifles, six pistols, and two swords." The new Water Carrier-Emperor was said to have ridden into Kabul on a saddleless horse, guiding the beast by knee pressure, whooping triumphantly, and ambidextrously brandishing two rifles. Meanwhile, where was Amanullah...
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