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The New Yorker: Fiction

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The Ginsburg Poem, I'm With You in Rockland

"I'm with you in Rockland" is about a brother's final visit to the hospital where he was being treated for cancer. The same hospital had a mention in the Ginsburg poem again and again, I'm With You In Rockland. "It made you feel part of literary history somehow," says author Michael Ondaatje. 'You were in a real situation with your real brother'

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