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| | Poetry Previews: Djuna Barnes |
 | | Barnes collection of short stories, published as A Book (1923) and as A Night Among The Horses (1929), received little attention when it reappeared, edited and revised, as The Spillway (London, 1962; New York, 1972). |
 | | In story after story Barnes confronts us with a dark view of our precarious, metaphysical predicament: that we are neither as unconsciously noble and disinterested as other animals nor as wisely noble and disinterested as angels. |
 | | It is now widely known that Robin was modeled on the great love of Barnes' life, Thelma Wod, Nora on Barnes herself, and Dr. O'Connor on the Irish-American, quack doctor, sometime abortionist, flamboyantly campy homosexual and cafe raconteur, Daniel Mahoney. |
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