LEE UPTON is the author of four volumes of poetry and three books of criticism. Her most recent book of poetry Civilian Histories (University of Georgia Press) was selected as a winner in the Georgia Contemporary Poetry Series Competition, and her No Mercy was a winner in the National Poetry Series. She has also won the Pushcart Prize. She teaches at Lafayette College in Easton, Pennsylvania. APHRODITE OUT OF BOUNDS Those we destroyed in my name, the dead stringers, the least of the lost, the charming maniacs we practiced covert derangements on... I am so to speak simply elementary. It's not my job to pay attention, delirious with my long and sullied art, no matter what they say to me. They say: I don't dance. It's inefficient. It's the least optimistic surgery. There's no one who won't dance with me. Long live the queen and long live the queenery. Agent of the deepest deep, never to be erased under any name from the longing of women. NOSTALGIA'S RIGHT ARM
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