A poem that begins with ellipsis' and continues with a volta at each new stanza, a poem that in the second line verbs (unworlding), easily holds the interest, if not grabbing it by the throat. Austin Clarke, creates such vivid atmosphere, and gives intense shifts in action -- from an orphaned boy, to burial alive, to wet dreams and a leather wall -- their own space. Abrupt change from the previous perspectives, the cadence of the action, and positioning of narrator and reader, serve to create Clarke's series of states -- realities, dreams, or fiction.
An 'inward-outness' quality effects many aspects of the poem, at times it almost seems like a chain of
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