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“It was not Death, for I stood up”

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Why this poem? An answer by artist Elizabeth Terhune:

Many things strike me about this poem. The inverted checklist structure (it was not this, because . . .). The slow pace. Her brilliant language, “for all the Bells/put out their Tongues, for Noon.” The stunning conclusion “Chaos — stopless — cool” always shocks me.

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