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"He is good, / but he is a product of the world"

Rhetorics of empire in Scott Abels's "Rambo Goes to Idaho"

Susan M. Schultz

How to be a poet in Hawai`i--or elsewhere--who opposes imperialism, colonization, the military, and yet appears, as a Euro-American, to embody them? I've worried this issue before on my own blog, and thought I'd think more about it here by way of a new book from BlazeVox by Scott Abels.



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