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Raffael De Gruttola:
MAPPLETHORPE IMPRESSIONS


Cordillera Press
4 Marshall Rd.
Natick MA, 01760


This folded sheet contains 10 haiku inspired by the much-protested Mapplethorpe photographs. As such, they are sexually graphic: "snakelike/ man eating/ his own tail" and "ringed pinkie/ finding the pee hole--/ still-life." Can't say there's too many haiku like these.--Thomas Willoch


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This review originally appeared in TapRoot Reviews #4,
Copyright Burning Press 1994, 1995.

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