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Steve Gehrke’s third book, Michelangelo’s Seizure, was selected for the National Poetry Series and is forthcoming from University of Illinois Press. His second book, The Pyramids of Malpighi (Anhinga, 2004), won the Philip Levine Prize. His other awards include a grant from the NEA and a Pushcart Prize.

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Goya at the Madhouse

Steve Gehrke

So this is where a love of the imagination leads,
      Goya thinks, boarded up inside his deafness,
quarantined, silence inside of him like embalming fluid,
      the whole scene swirling around him as he draws,

From the Fall 2005 Issue

Fall 2005 Issue Cover “Goya at the Madhouse” is part of the Fall 2005 issue of Virginia Quarterly Review, which also features essays, fiction, poetry, book reviews, and humor. Subscribe today for just $32.

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