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“The ABCs of ‘Of’”

1.

Aberrations of meanness

Absence of ignominy

Acquisition of attention

Age of brain

Agility of despair

Anachronisms of moderation

Annulment of manners

Ardor of opinion

Austerities of brutality

Avalanche of ignorance

 

2.

Babel of exclusion

Ban of enthusiasm

Barriers of fact

Beam of prey

Bewilderment of portraiture

Bliss of fate

Bone of civility

Bouts of law

Brow of disgrace

Burden of confidence

 

3.

Cadences of confusion

Calmness of passion

Careless of solicitude

Chaos of evidence

Chorus of hills

Code of calamities

Community of imagination

Courage of hospitality

Crash of contempt

Curl of delirium

Contributor
John Yau

John Yau’s recent books include a selection of essays, The Wild Children of William Blake(2017), a book of poetry, Bijoux in the Dark(2018), and a monograph on Philip Taaffe(2018). Annals of a Gumshoe, a collaboration with Trevor Winkfield, is forthcoming from Smoke Specs. In 2018, he received the Jackson Poetry Prize, which is awarded annually to an American poet of exceptional talent who deserves wider recognition.

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