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Nude Descending a Staircase
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"If ever I were to put my hand to clay, take a knife to stone or dip a mould"
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2015...
2015
Nude Descending a Staircase
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Epigraph:
There was no sleeper more elegant than she, with her curved body posed for a dance and her hand across her forehead, but there was also no-one more ferocious when anyone disturbed the sensuality of her thinking she was still asleep when she no longer was. -Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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Awards
- 2014 winner Karen W Treanor Poetry Awards
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