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Is part of Doppelgangers Across Lands : 6 Poems by Emily Sun Emily Sun , 2020 selected work poetry
Issue Details: First known date: 2020... 2020 Origins
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Notes

  •  Epigraph:

    Of all people females and servants are the most difficult to behave to.

    If you are familiar with them, they lose their humility.

    If you maintain reserve towards them, they are discontented —Confucius, Analects

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  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon Cordite Poetry Review Earth no. 95 1 February 2020 18628701 2020 periodical issue

    'Why ‘Earth’? Because we are of it, because we are destroying it, because there is nowhere else. Because to think about anything else right now feels like dissociation.

    'The theme of this special issue isn’t radical. It’s not political. It’s not alarmist. It’s simply about drawing attention to a clear and present danger, something that is true: life on Earth, as we know it, is under threat. As for the relationship between this matter and poetry, isn’t truth-seeking what we like to think of as the job of the artist? Or are we just being poetic and self-regarding when we say that?' (Maria Takolander, Editorial introduction)

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