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Derek Mong

  • A Poem for the Scoundrel Lucian Freud
    A Poem for the Scoundrel Lucian Freud

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    “Enviable talent, absent parent, he made / sex and paint his life’s pursuits, eager / to seed his world with likeness.” A new poem by Derek Mong confronts “the world’s priciest portrait” and the artist who made it as the speaker reckons with his own awkward exchanges between art and love.