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Ernest Hilbert's newest poetry collection, Caligulan is heartrending and humorous, filled with love songs and requiems, meditations and memorials, as the poet imagines the ghost of the ruthless Roman emperor Caligula--who ruled over a pagan empire as prosperous as it was unaccountably cruel--looming over modern America, pronouncing his infamous commandment that his victims be killed slowly, "so that they know they are dying." Caligulan is at once terrifying and touching, a book haunted by the poet's many affections and ...

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Caligulan 2015, Measure Press Inc.

ISBN-13: 9781939574138

Hardcover