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David Baker Reads Stanley Plumly

The New Yorker: Poetry

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In Passing by Stanley Plumley

David Baker reads In Passing by Stanley Plumley. The poem is set in the Canadian side of Niagara Falls. It's about a couple who live in a cloud above the sheer witness of a valley. "There is almost nothing that does not signal loneliness, than loveliness," says Baker.

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