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Decomposing Robert by David Spittle George Szirtes One of his tutelary spiritsIn this long poem, David Spittle seeks to mirror the decomposition of the human body with the decomposition and syntactical entropy of language itself, in the same way Wittgensteins early philosophy attempted to mirror the structure of reality with the structure of language. Interspersing fragments from Robert Brownings own poetry into his own and seemingly interweaving his visions with those of the Victorian poet, Spittle ingeniously exhumes not just