The Big Smoke by Adrian Matejka

By Adrian Matejka

Longlisted for the 2013 nationwide booklet Award in Poetry—a new assortment that examines the parable and heritage of the prizefighter Jack Johnson

The mythical Jack Johnson (1878–1946) used to be a real American production. the kid of emancipated slaves, he overcame the violent segregationism of Jim Crow, tough white boxers—and white America—to develop into the 1st African-American heavyweight international champion. the large Smoke, Adrian Matejka's 3rd paintings of poetry, follows the fighter's trip from poverty to the main coveted name in activities throughout the multi-layered voices of Johnson and the white girls he overtly enjoyed. Matejka's booklet is a component historical reclamation and half interrogation of Johnson's complex legacy, person who usually misremembers the magnetic guy in the back of the parable.

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49 This speech is delivered by the rivergod Volturnus himself, leaning against an arch of the new bridge and employing prayer-formulae very similar to those employed by Hercules when he addresses Pollius Felix on the threshold of his temple. In the case of the rivergod we encounter one of Statius’ rare allusions to writing and, specifically, to an inscription, when Volturnus tells Domitian how the emperor will be rendered on the bridge, as maximus arbiter and uictor perpetuus of the riverbank, although the ambiguity of the verb is masterful: he will 49 Trans.

1–4) ed. -W. Rinn, 2 (Silv. 5, Theb. -L. Achaintre, 3–4 (Theb. L. Boutteville] [Frankfurt 1833 (Weber)] Corpus poetarum latinorum uno volumine absolutum cum selecta varietate lectionis et explicatione brevissima edidit Guilielmus Ernestus Weber, Francofurti ad Moenum, sumptimbus et typis Henrici Ludovici Broenneri. [Paris 1835–6 (Dübner)] Publii Papinii Statii Opera quae exstant cum notis aliorum et suis edidit Fr. Dubner, Parisiis, excudit C. L. F. Panckoucke. STONES IN THE FOREST: EPIGRAPHIC ALLUSION IN THE SILVAE* Kathleen M.

See McKeown 1998, 144. 19 Tolman 1910, 2–3. 21 It is important to stress that epitaphs do not have a monopoly on the inscriptions embedded in Latin verse. The Heroides are a useful example to set beside the Silvae, since, although their subject-matter is mythological, their epistolary form clothes the stories in the quotidian atmosphere of the real world. To cite examples of three non-funerary types from this work: an inscription on a statue-base is represented by the titulus that Phyllis imagines carving beneath a putative statue of Demophoon (Her.

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