The 1002nd Night

While seeming to affirm the Western poetic and cultural tradition, Greger attacks its rational heart. The subjects of her poems—Mozart operas, Botticelli’s Three Graces, narcissus flowers—are the vestments of aristocratic Europe, but her poetic issue is stream-of-consciousness.

Originally published in 1990.

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