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 "title": "Brâncuși’s Golden Bird",
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 "poet": "Mina Loy",
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 "language": "en",
 "book": "Poetry",
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  "year": 1922,
  "venue": "The Dial, vol. LXXIII (November 1922), p. 507",
  "note": "Read on the page: the poem stands under the heading BRANCUSI’S GOLDEN BIRD over the byline BY MINA LOY in the November 1922 number, facing a plate of Brancusi’s sculpture, and the volume index for vol. LXXIII lists it under Loy, Mina in the verse index at page 507. The text held here follows the 1923 Lunar Baedecker printing, not this one.",
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  "rights": "public domain (SE dedication; underlying text pre-1931)"
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    "text": "The toy",
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    "text": "become the aesthetic archetype",
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    "text": "As if",
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    "text": "some patient peasant God",
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    "text": "had rubbed and rubbed",
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    "text": "the Alpha and Omega",
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    "text": "of Form",
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    "text": "A naked orientation",
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    "text": "unwinged unplumed",
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    "text": "—⁠ ⁠the ultimate rhythm",
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    "text": "has lopped the extremities",
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    "text": "of crest and claw",
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    "text": "from",
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    "text": "the nucleus of flight",
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    "text": "The absolute act",
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    "text": "of art",
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    "text": "conformed",
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    "text": "to continent sculpture",
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    "text": "—⁠ ⁠bare as the brow of Osiris⁠ ⁠—",
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    "text": "this breast of revelation",
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    "text": "an incandescent curve",
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    "text": "licked by chromatic flames",
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    "text": "in labyrinths of reflections",
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    "text": "This gong",
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    "text": "of polished hyper aesthesia",
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    "text": "shrills with brass",
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    "text": "as the aggressive light",
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    "text": "The immaculate",
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    "text": "of the inaudible bird",
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    "text": "occurs",
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    "text": "in gorgeous reticence⁠ ⁠—⁠ ⁠—⁠ ⁠—",
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