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Nude Descending a Staircase
© 1985 by X. J. Kennedy. Used by permission of the author.
Source: Poetry (January 1960).
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Biography
Joseph Kennedy, better known to his readers by the pseudonym X. J. Kennedy, is a self-confessed "schizophrenic" as regards his writings. Kennedy noted to Contemporary Authors that "I write for three separate audiences: children, college students (who use textbooks), and that small band of people who still read poetry." But there is unity in all of Kennedy's writings—underlying it is a love of poetry and meter, a playfulness . . .
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SUBJECT Painting & Sculpture, Nature, Arts & Sciences, The Body
Poetic Terms Rhymed Stanza, Ekphrasis
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