Neo-neorealism

March 15, 2009 · Posted in poetry, webjournal 

Neo-neorealism

by Steve Barbaro

<br /> Neo-neorealism</p> <p> Oil bubbles on metal: gold-looping…</p> <p> He likes his body clean, would like his body<br /> Burned: his sons must mix his ashes in milk<br /> Shakes to be glazed<br /> on the gravestones<br /> Of well-known former Cold War diplomats.</p> <p>Maple syrup warms in rusted vats…<br />

Steve Barbaro is originally from the Chicagoland area, and is currently a first-year MFA in poetry at the University of Virginia. “Neo-neorealism” is from his first book-length manuscript, titled Abyss/Edifice.

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