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Adrienne Su Reads Maxine Kumin

The New Yorker: Poetry

CHAPTER

The Strangeness of Family

This is a poem I think about intimacy and the intimacy of family And how connected one is. But at the same time, it's a really strange thing to make a life. The kids are disguised and there's guys as these sort of things that are doctors and lawyers. At the end she almost named it when she says I hold the rope As you slide from danger, it's tricky in high winds and drifting snow.

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