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Two Sonnets for Joe Green
by Ben Mazer
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Ben MazerBEN MAZER's poetry collections include Poems (The Pen & Anvil Press) and January 2008 (Dark Sky Books), both published in 2010. He is the editor of Landis Everson's Everything Preserved: Poems 1955-2005 (Graywolf Press) and Selected Poems of Frederick Goddard Tuckerman (Harvard University Press).
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