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'In “Why Waste Lines on Achille?”: Tracing the Critical Discourse on Postcolonial Poetry through Untimeliness to the Present, Lucy Van notes that the scholarship on postcolonial poetry has tended to be somewhat belated to postcolonial studies...' (Vickery and Alizadeh, p 7)
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Why waste lines on Achille, a shade on the sea-floor?
Because strong as self-healing coral, a quiet culture is branching...
The crab's anabasis
Scuttles under his wake, because this is the true element,
Water, which commemorates nothing in its stasis.
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“Why Waste Lines on Achille?” : Tracing the Critical Discourse on Postcolonial Poetry through Untimeliness to the Present
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