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N OTES Fig According to the myth, Rome was erected in the place where Romulus killed his twin brother, Remus. This poem is a collage with text taken from A Modern Herbal, by Mrs. M. Grieve (Harcourt, Brace & Company, ). Corrida de Toros The figure of the bull in Spanish bull fighting is considered a symbol of the martyrdom of Christ. Apologia Pro Vita Sua In , when Edna St. Vincent Millay became pregnant by a man she did not intend to marry, she and her mother, Cora, fled to Dorset, England. Cora, skilled in nursing, fed Edna herbal concoctions that brought about Edna’s miscarriage. Morro de São Paulo Suggested by Caravaggio’s Conversione di San Paolo, which depicts St. Paul’s conversion on the way to Damascus. The Diviners Suggested by Jim Leonard Jr.’s play The Diviners. Stein in Love with Picasso Suggested by Stein’s obsessive literary portraits of Picasso.  ...

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