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Literary Imagination Advance Access published online on October 22, 2009
Literary Imagination, doi:10.1093/litimag/imp081
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from The Greek Anthology, Book XVII

Greg Delanty

The first 10% of the full text of this article appears below.


   The Immortalists
 

Youngsters climb the gorge, limber as goats, leap thirty feet
            into a pool no more than two yards wide
surrounded by jagged limestone outcrops.
            There's no room for error. I watch these high flyers
from the precipice opposite. I can hardly bear to look down,
            want to holler Stop, but know kids . . . [Full Text of this Article]


   On the Make
 

   The Caryatids in the Acropolis
 

   Resort
 

   To a Teacher
 

   Try Again, Dolt
 

   The Traveler's Grace
 

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