In Christina Rossetti’s poem Goblin Market (1862), a virgin enters the sexual marketplace and buys her own body.

A (light, quiet, fruitful) ekphrastic poem by Lena Moses-Schmitt, prompted by Cézanne’s “Still Life with Apples” (1898) (cylinder, cone, sphere).

The banana as a marker of former oppression and government destabilization: American advertising, retail imagination, and colonial empire.