Irene Koronas, Excerpts from ninth iota

Devil Cock, image by Irene Koronas

Excerpts from ninth iota

hermes

syncretic creed

in pubic hood

hands

cede plebs 

fidelity

on demand

or

by stone finger

filial forms

fed on silt

from snip

and

quick apotheosis

hesiod 2

[1] absence

oral metric shroud

roots a single span

[2] whom embody greeks

[3] climatic suitors

[4] the hexameter

[5] period

[6] external source

[7][8] two extant sets

vivid long [9] texting

[10] bracket narrative

on in

fact

elegiac

rags remain

[12] eleven lesbos (c 630 c 570 b c)

respect [14] only

[15] additions to monadic

[16] red amphora costume held in full attribute

[17] question

[18] seven

[19] act

[20] three theban centers

[21] nineteen survive reproductions

[23] obscenity comedies

complete [24] poke fun at one

ridicule [25] high skill

[26] satyr popular

[27] bust first half

[28] his book 

[29] xenophon 411b c

[30] expel throne praise

[31] philosophy fifth and fourth

accurate least a vague approximation pressed

[32] scholars argue intent

expound own little 

figure the same name[33] debate

[34][35] purport to describe his trial

[36] execution

[37] love

[38] and deal

[41] stagira thinkers

[42] first metaphysic desire to know

those who present logic

international [43] million volumes born 295 bc  

[44] 13 year epigrams

[45] mimes hint at complete forms

[46] spent [47] influence on 38

[48] mathematics

906 have been lost to measure

the circumference written by archimedes

studied [49] reference frags

[50] [51][52] were probably late

the transition from shift to literary

or rhetorical inclination

all types continue to expand

criticism by hail

[53] saints

[54] probably lived

[55] left off

[56] where 

[57] paraphrase or early

[60] bust

[61] a friend in 146 vivid five through 20 parts

[62] from research

[63] consecrate

[64] mentor 

[65] publish other essays on [66]

[67] common anecdotes

[68] auto 

[69] animalium 

[70] (1485) anatomy for the next 1400 years

sketch in 47 volumes [71] 2nd century ad

[72] guides to ruin accuracy

Ptolemy [73] font

[74] a notion

[75] dominate astro

[76] replace

[77] stoics

consider [78] in spite

[79] reform quality

[80] periods

[81] enneads

[82] from compose

[83] dig

[84] fig

[85] second

[86] satirist 

[87] faux dialect

[88] novel

[89] transfer [90] [91] as lovers of lies

[92] a version of [93]

[94] unknown [95]

(1912) pp vii kinematic perspective

(1954, 1968) p3 2006 197ff note 64

3836 holds nearer 120 than 150

2011 p309 n29 9780199292011 use (albeit mid and erratic)

2010 p7 9780199803033 (1987) 0-8014-1874-7 (1985) volume1

(2007) black well universe (1981) from homer to often

hesiod 3

(left below)

 1   muse
 2   cosmogony
 3   castration
 4   by
 5   sea
 6   beast
 7   the tits
 8   hymn
 9   cronus
10  prometheus
11  titanomachy
12  raphy
13  us
14  open
15  dress and then

let us mount 

broad in thick hold

rod sturdy

they lip her round briny

either side haunts

or lust bolts

[fifty heads strong]

—Irene Koronas