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Frank Dent's avatar

Your poem “medusa with the head of perseus” sent me looking for my battered old copy of Edith Hamilton’s classic Mythology just to be sure: yep, its cover illustration by Steele Savage shows Perseus with the head of Medusa, presumably drawn from Cellini’s statue that I’m guessing you’re referencing.

I like the last two stanzas where the speaker simply walks around to the back of the statue. Often in ekphrastic poems the speaker is static; good to see some movement.

Your poem is also, I think, very much in the tradition of poems like Rilke’s famous sonnet “Archaic Torso of Apollo.”

Keep up the good work.

https://poemsintranslation.blogspot.com/2016/04/rilke-archaic-torso-of-apollo-from.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edith_Hamilton

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steele_Savage (who does he remind you of?)

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Teresa Vonfeldt-Gross's avatar

Congratulations!!

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