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Gary Hardaway Art Survives Trust that art survives: Emily's seventeen hundred eighty-nine idiosyncratic hymn-breathed journal entries, Caravaggio's lurid canvases, Chichen-Itza strung with blood-fed vines. Forget the salt erasure of Carthage, all the Meso-American artifacts smelted to float the Armada and feed the Inquisition. Forget the hydrocarbons gnawing what remains of the Acropolis and the tidal tongues that flick Piazza di San Marco. Forget, too, recurrent dreams of methane wafting up through bulldozed soil from manuscripts typed and never sent.
Gary Hardaway is an architect living in Irving, Texas.
Born October 24, 1950, he has spent most of his life
in and around Dallas. His interest in poetry was sparked
by reading Ferlinghetti's A Coney Island of the Mind at a tender age
which led to harder stuff: Eliot, Frost, Williams, Stevens.
When he grows up, he'd like to write as well as Elizabeth Bishop.
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