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In poems initially inspired by Aeschylus’ fifth-century B.C. trilogy “The Oresteia,” which chronicles the fall of the House of Atreides, Loose Strife investigates the classical sense of loose strife, namely “to loose battle” or “sow chaos,” a concept which is still very much with us more than twenty-five hundred years later.

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  1. Cover
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  1. Title Page, Copyright
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  1. Contents
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  1. Dedication, Quote
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  1. loose strife (“Somebody says draw a map”)
  2. pp. 3-4
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  1. loose strife (“Listen closely as I sing this”)
  2. pp. 5-6
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  1. loose strife (“Afterward one woman says”)
  2. p. 7
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  1. loose strife (“As in loosely inspired by Aeschylus’s”)
  2. p. 8
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  1. loose strife (“It seemed to come out rear first”)
  2. p. 9
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  1. loose strife (“When he comes to the gate”)
  2. pp. 10-11
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  1. loose strife (“Even Homer recognizes the barbarism of the act”)
  2. pp. 12-13
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  1. loose strife (“Leonine”)
  2. p. 14
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  1. loose strife (“I will not say its name”)
  2. pp. 15-16
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  1. ars
  2. pp. 17-18
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  1. loose strife (“When I first learned”)
  2. p. 19
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  1. IV
  2. p. 20
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  1. loose strife (“Say, when we woke”)
  2. pp. 21-22
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  1. loose strife (“Nights in the loft”)
  2. p. 23
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  1. loose strife (“At dinner the following night”)
  2. pp. 24-25
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  1. loose strife (“There in the clouds”)
  2. p. 26
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  1. Forward!
  2. pp. 27-29
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  1. loose strife (“At ninety-seven Mimi says”)
  2. p. 30
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  1. variation (“Another example of this inability”)
  2. p. 31
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  1. variation (“Conversely the conclusion of Stanislaw Lem’s 1961 novel”)
  2. p. 32
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  1. craft (“The first great poet”)
  2. pp. 33-35
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  1. The Lord be with you but not also with you
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  1. Noli Me Tangere
  2. pp. 38-40
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  1. craft (“The man in the Hawaiian shirt”)
  2. pp. 41-44
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  1. loose strife (“Embarrassingly it was just outside the tunnels”)
  2. pp. 45-46
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  1. Someone once said we were put on this earth to witness and testify
  2. pp. 47-48
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  1. Abortion on demand and without apology
  2. pp. 49-50
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  1. loose strife (“Everyone dreams of being harmed”)
  2. pp. 51-52
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  1. They say she went out through the living room window
  2. p. 53
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  1. loose strife (“Some critics say”)
  2. p. 54
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  1. loose strife (“Everywhere in the seven seas”)
  2. p. 55
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  1. loose strife (“We are not allowed that”)
  2. pp. 56-60
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  1. Quote
  2. pp. 61-62
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  1. Notes
  2. pp. 63-64
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  1. Acknowledgments
  2. pp. 65-66
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  1. Back Cover
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