Carpe Residuum

—With a nod to Robert Frost

Authors

  • Sal Cetrano Author

Keywords:

poem

Abstract

Echoing Robert Frost’s “Mending Wall,” this satirical poem speaks for insiders who love a wall and want to keep outsiders and new ideas out.

Author Biography

  • Sal Cetrano

    Sal Cetrano is a poet and former history teacher in the high schools of NYC, from which he retired with only flesh wounds and the odd night waking up screaming. Rare among Mailer’s friends, he was and is a conservative, a juxtaposition the two endlessly found both entertaining and instructive. His work has appeared, among other places, in California Quarterly, Negative Capability, Dalhousie Review, Poetry Wales, Pulpsmith, KansasQuarterly, PRISM international, Kentucky Poetry Review and Poetry New Zealand. A regular at Mailer’s Gramercy Gym boxing club in the 1980s, he was born and raised in Brooklyn, but now resides in southern Florida, feeding the ducks and waiting on Jesus.

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Published

2021-07-15

Issue

Vol. 15 No. 1 (2021): 15th Anniversary Issue

Section

Creative Works

How to Cite

Cetrano, Sal. “Carpe Residuum: —With a Nod to Robert Frost”. The Mailer Review, vol. 15, no. 1, July 2021, pp. 366–367, https://mailerreview.org/journal/article/view/43.