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'Black Maria': Verse Noir [US]:

However amusing it might be to imagine T. S. Eliot pitching ''The Wasteland'' to an Armani-clad studio executive -- ''It's the Commedia meets 'The Golden Bough' meets Baudelaire, with a cast of thousands of footnotes!'' -- the truth is that few books of poetry lend themselves to Hollywood-style synopsis. But then few books of poetry claim on their title pages, as Kevin Young's ''Black Maria'' does, that they have been ''produced and directed by'' the author. [...]

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