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    One April Day

    Jun 04, 2018 3 minutes
    RACHEL HADAS

    THE CATALOG OF THE EXHIBIT “Vestiges and Verse: Notes from the Newfangled Epic,” at the American Folk Art Museum in New York, fails to note that the complex and ambitious architectural drawings of Achilles G. Rizzoli (1896–1981) incorporate numerous sonnets. True, we’re told that in “the late 1920’s until 1934, [Rizzoli’s] attention was primarily centered on writing literature and poetry.” (Literature and poetry? Two separate species?) Then, when Rizzoli’s literary efforts found no publishers, he focused on drawing and worked as an architectural draftsman. But a close look at Rizzoli’s large and

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