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by Cathy Eisenhower
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Cathy EisenhowerCathy Eisenhower lives and works as a librarian in Washington, DC, and is the author of Language of the Dog-heads (Phylum 2001), clearing without reversal (Edge 2008), and would with and (Roof 2009). She is co-translatingthe selected poems of Argentine poet Diana Bellessi and co-curated the In Your Ear Reading Series for the past several years.
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