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Rowan Ricardo Phillips Reads Nick Laird

The New Yorker: Poetry

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The Great Elk, Measure for Measure, There by Rowan Ricardo Phillips

Roxan ricardo phillips' poem 'Measure for measure' is about a great elk with seven point tines. He says he finds nature more exciting than cities and communities in the city. The poet believes that all his poems are autobiographical, but nothing quite so much as this one.

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