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A literary epigram that pits style, publication, blood, Hemingway, and Poe against 'the American way.'

The page sounds half like tribute, half like accusation. By reducing style to publication and art to blood, it suggests that American literary culture turns vocation into branding while still feeding on violence and mortality.

A five-line epigram: 'Style is publication / Mr. Hemmingway / And Art is blood / Mr. Poe', followed after a gap by 'So goes on the American way...'.

The page pairs two American writers with two blunt definitions, assigning the marketable surface of style to Hemingway and the costly substance of blood to Poe. The trailing ellipsis turns the couplets into a shrug at a national literary culture that keeps rewarding one while consuming the other, and the source spelling 'Hemmingway' adds an unpolished, spoken edge.