Style Is Publication

A short epigram contrasting 'Mr. Hemmingway' and 'Mr. Poe': public style is set against blood-made art before the poem turns to the American way. The first line is part of the poem, not a separate title on the scan.

A five-line epigram that sorts American letters into two ledgers and closes the book. Addressed across two names - 'Mr. Hemmingway' paired with style (the title's claim that 'Style Is Publication'), 'Mr. Poe' paired with the flat verdict 'And Art is blood' - the poem makes craft a matter of getting printed and art a matter of bleeding for it. The dismissive 'So goes on the American way' refuses to adjudicate between them, treating the split not as a debate to settle but as a national habit to record and step past.