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  • Self-Publishing
  • X. J. Kennedy (bio)

Sam Clemens, setting tons of typeFor the Territorial Enterprise,Composing in the stick, grew wiseTo weights of words. And setting type,Walt Whitman came to understandHow his long lines composed of leadChallenged a weary-fingered hand.

He faked reviews, sang his own praise.Straw basket on one arm, he'd hawkHis Leaves from door to door and lookProspective readers in the eyes.On selling self he wrote the casebook.Now weightless, our soliloquiesSolicit trade with tweet and Facebook. [End Page 632]

X. J. Kennedy

X. J. Kennedy, who has earned the Aiken Taylor prize among his many other honors, has been publishing poetry and prose in this quarterly since 1992. His most recent book is a translation of The Bestiary of Guillaume Apollinaire (2011).

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