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Saturday, June 25, 2005

UD SALUTES…

…the two college students who recognized Sandra Monica Rincon’s poem “Love in America,” which appeared recently in the San Antonio Express-News, as the work of Marianne Moore. “The Express-News was alerted to the similarity between the Rincon and Moore poems separately by two college students who e-mailed the Web site MySanAntonio.com.”

“Love in America” is not a very good poem, but reading a few of its lines in light of the plagiarism does yield a mild Retrospective Irony Effect (look here for more on RIE):


whatever it is, let it be without
affectation.



“Reached by phone for comment,” the newspaper writes in its apology to its readers, “Rincon hung up.”