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Adrienne Su Reads Maxine Kumin

The New Yorker: Poetry

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The Foil of the College Friend Who Wants to Be More

There's a lot of internal little Moments of musicality that I just love in the poem and one of my favorite is he had wanted more I had demurered there's this kind of quality that uh, is like a purring almost in the poem um Tell me about that other foil of this college friend who wants to be more.

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