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David Baker Reads Stanley Plumly

The New Yorker: Poetry

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The Lady With the Dog

The poem begins in this sort of explosive way. A whole lot of stuff has happened before we're beginning now. And as we read the poem, we begin to fill in the blanks of what some of those prior things are. I love that kind of sense of place, but also of it's not quite displacement, but just jumping in.

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