Abstract
Starting in 1960, Djuna Barnes spent over 20 years writing, revising, and re-spinning the long poem called variously “Rite of Spring,” “Vagrant Spring,” “Viaticum,” and “Transfiguration,” among other working titles (figure 3.1).1
Man cannot purge his body of its theme,
As can the silkworm, on a running thread,
Spin a shroud to re-consider in.
—Djuna Barnes, “Rite of Spring”
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Kalaidjian, A. (2016). The Black Sheep: Djuna Barnes’s Dark Pastoral. In: Herman, D. (eds) Creatural Fictions. Palgrave Studies in Animals and Literature. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-137-51811-8_4
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