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This exploration of poetic puzzles ranges from Randall Jarrell's shocking Death of A Ball Turret Gunner ("they washed me out of the turret with a hose") to Wallace Stevens's Emperor of Ice-Cream (Fuller notes, "the national food of a country which has eschewed emperors").
Discussing the poetic force of riddles, he cites a children's rhyme about "a bottomless vessel to put flesh and blood in". Warfare? No, a wedding ring.
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