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Kay Gabriel

Kay Gabriel is a poet and essayist. She’s the author of Elegy Department Spring / Candy Sonnets 1 (BOAAT Press, 2017), a 2018-19 Emerge-Surface-Be Fellow at the Poetry Project, and a PhD candidate at Princeton University.



The Purloined Lyric

by Kay Gabriel

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The epistolary is an elaborate ruse. I write in the second person, but even if I pose you very interesting questions I'm indulging an excuse to talk about myself—maybe in the anticipation that you care about what I have to say, certain in my knowledge that if you don't I'll get away with it first.

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