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A Hermit Pets a Cat, While Thinking About the Ocean

By Ilya Kutik

I O, my verse! Walk, don’t run… Why run anyway? And where to…For you can’t

Tailor-Made

By John Hollander

How can a punishment fit a crime? What’s not ill-suited to a wrong?

In Memory of Bill Cole

By Seamus Heaney

As Dante when he entered Purgatory Was greeted by Casella, and the song Casella sang sweetened his memory

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The Brooklyn Rail

OCT-NOV 01

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