My Own Private Ulysses: Ulysses is Not a Novel
Robert Roman
Ulysses is Not a Novel
No, Joyce’s Ulysses is no novel.
Yes, it’s novel, as the poet said, new.
Yes, it may, tricks play, and make you grovel
No, you can’t load art like Neo’s Kung Fu.
Like life worthwhile, it takes miles of time.
If it’s a poem, it’s of epic space
Like its pre-echo, Homer’s old view rhyme,
And reverberates all over the place.
But poetry’s squidly definitions
Cannot capture Joyce’s nouveau gestalt.
Science mistook for art of magicians
Results when the old falls under assault.
Like it or not, Joyce’s art broke the hold
Of space and time the old matrix controlled.
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