That's where you rise from

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My poem "Phersipnai" is now online at ChiZine. The title is the Etruscan name for Persephone; she is depicted as described in the Tomb of Orcus. It was written last April, when I was thinking more than usually about underworlds.

I cannot adequately express why it so made my night to discover that Benjamin Britten set Tennyson's "The Kraken" for Peter Pears to sing, but it really, really did.

I should probably save the fake news for a post with no actual content. Though the bit about Google and the Library of Alexandria . . .

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I *love* that poem of yours. And I don't recall if I had seen the painting from the Tomb of Orcus before, but seeing it just now, I loved it, too.

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I *love* that poem of yours.

Thank you.

And I don't recall if I had seen the painting from the Tomb of Orcus before, but seeing it just now, I loved it, too.

I need to get a book of Etruscan tomb paintings. The Tomb of Orcus has some of the most striking, but they all belong to a world I wish I knew more about.