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Unread 05-18-2002, 10:00 AM
Beth Ann Fennelly Beth Ann Fennelly is offline
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Hello, Epigone, and thanks for the congrats. I'm glad you enjoyed the excerpt from my poem, "Madame L. Describes the Sige of Paris." That the speaker is in a zoo, etc. is no accident--the poem is a historical monologue spoken by one of the people trapped in Paris during the Franco-Prussian war. This "Madame L." is recalling those times, and what it felt like to be one of the people who took part in the zoo raid. (I found the whole idea really intriguing--esp. considering how uptight the French can sometimes seem--and did a lot of research, which was fun. Before they ate the zoo, the Parisians ate their pets!) If you get a chance to read the whole poem, I hope you like it.
Thanks, Beth Ann
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