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in flicking his cape, turning his back to bow
(Oh, Toro, Toro,
who has heard you fall?”
[*I did not like this toy at all.*]
I heard him lying twitching on the street,
or fancied Toro sound could come from such a toy,
a fist-sized bullock, cuddly black,
with bandalero-figured winding pin sewed into his back,
vulnerable to any childish thumb
or eager vendor like this one of left Café Colón,
unslung his ragged cardboard box
and loosed his hopping ware down to the stones
(Oh, Toro, Toro
what have they done to you?_
Yet, even Andalusian hills, spike-fruited, thorned,
had worn the course of the bravest always run:
Sierra Nevada access, high testing-ground where weakest fail;
Granada, the middle prize where beauty stays;
the climb and glide to Córdoba,
ancient Roman praise, still wise in Arab skill;
and then Seville,
from clever Santa Cruz to deep-eyed beggars on the squares
a capital worthy to fix a crown, command the river
that ties the see to hills El Toro roams,
and give him king-spot, eminence](https://cuny.manifoldapp.org/system/resource/6/5/8/658adb16-5dcb-4198-b128-952e433e31a2/attachment/3b9f879880c862fdf4ecbe347a3f797c.jpg)
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in flicking his cape, turning his back to bow
(Oh, Toro, Toro,
who has heard you fall?”
[*I did not like this toy at all.*]
I heard him lying twitching on the street,
or fancied Toro sound could come from such a toy,
a fist-sized bullock, cuddly black,
with bandalero-figured winding pin sewed into his back,
vulnerable to any childish thumb
or eager vendor like this one of left Café Colón,
unslung his ragged cardboard box
and loosed his hopping ware down to the stones
(Oh, Toro, Toro
what have they done to you?_
Yet, even Andalusian hills, spike-fruited, thorned,
had worn the course of the bravest always run:
Sierra Nevada access, high testing-ground where weakest fail;
Granada, the middle prize where beauty stays;
the climb and glide to Córdoba,
ancient Roman praise, still wise in Arab skill;
and then Seville,
from clever Santa Cruz to deep-eyed beggars on the squares
a capital worthy to fix a crown, command the river
that ties the see to hills El Toro roams,
and give him king-spot, eminence](https://cuny.manifoldapp.org/system/resource/6/5/8/658adb16-5dcb-4198-b128-952e433e31a2/attachment/medium-0ae03f5e5b798433940ea3c0b3141439.jpg)
El Toro (with annotations) 3
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Poem written by Emanuel in 1978/1980, typed with handwritten annotations. In his notes, Emanuel states that this is the longest poem he has ever written. The poem arises questions of how society treats its inhabitants. (Page 3)
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- file size642 kB
- container titleJames A. Emanuel Papers
- creatorJames A. Emanuel
- issueBOX 5 FOLDER 12 "Whole Grain and Later Poems of James A. Emanuel (Annotated by the Auhtor), draft, part I, 1995 (2 of 2)
- rightsJames A. Emanuel Estate
- rights holderJames A. Emanuel Estate
- version1978/1980