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The Mask of Anarchy by Percy Bysshe Shelley
"A Murdered Sensorium" afterword by Tod Thilleman  stati-graphic prints by Lynn Hassan





As I lay asleep in Italy
There came a voice from over the Sea,
And with great power it forth led me
To walk in the visions of Poesy.













"Shelley’s poem, while employing Dantescan symbolism, continues to create a cosmology
for poetry itself, no matter the style or manner of its creation. Its universal assessment of
human freedom alongside human law might serve our present literature and its mode of
practice in the
United States of America."  from the afterword by Tod Thilleman