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These ambitious poems aim to encompass a mass of intellectual and cultural bric-a-brac: "let's begin with macadam, fruit bowls, a Florentine mosaic, / Louie Louie's three slurred chords, & perhaps for now end there." For Donovan, human consciousness appears to be an ordered schizophrenia, and history a mysterious compilation of tricks, deceptions, and traps. He keeps his dense poems afloat by investing arcane ...