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Derek Mahon: Simulacrum

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Simulacrum

Raw Material, Oldcastle: The Gallery Press, 2011

Not included in CP

Allusion to Classical figure  Orpheus

Classical/post-Classical intertexts The poem is a version of Rilke's Sonnets to Orpheus II, 10 (Leipzig, 1923).

Derek Mahon