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JOEL DEANE
Rhetorica
- The rhetoric of the age is not
written in words,
- but spelled out in the disarray
of deconstructed,
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disembodied bodies.
- The hieroglyphics of slaughter:
- An ideographic of evisceration
without a Rosetta –
- Each victim claiming they
are the alpha of martyrdom;
- Each avenger vowing they
will be the omega of retribution.
- Male, Female. Mother, Son.
Father, Daughter.
- Muslim, Christian. Arab, Jew.
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Alpha and Omega all.
- A personified, collective stream
of subconsciousness
- That runs on and on towards the
inevitable
punctuation mark.
Joel Deane
is a Melbourne-based poet and novelist whose first collection of poetry, Subterranean
Radio Songs, was short listed for the Anne Elder Award, and whose second collection, Magisterium,
will be published by Australian Scholarly Publishing. His first novel, Another, was
published in 2004. His poetry has been published and accepted for publication in journals
including Australian Book Review, Blue Dog, Island, Meanjin, Overland, Ulitarra and
Saltlick.
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