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Strangled Roses: A Portrait
- The Edgar Allan Poe Review
- Penn State University Press
- Volume 14, Number 2, Autumn 2013
- pp. 199-200
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The poem includes the voices of Edgar Allan Poe and Virginia Clemm Poe. His young wife speaks from the dead. When Edgar realized he had no likeness of his wife, he commissioned an artist to paint her portrait—the portrait of her corpse.