The Final Disease and swimming at Nantasket Beach

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The Final Disease and swimming at Nantasket BeachFrom its starting invocation of Prometheus, fans of classical verse will appreciate this collection of poetic epistles. The title, The Final Disease, is taken from Plutarch's Renaissance biographical work, Lives, wherein Pompey describes Spain under Roman general and statesman Quintus Sertorius thus: The final disease, as it were, in which the scattered evils of the civil wars now collected. In this idiom, poet David W. Balliett attacks a variety of