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Christian Wiman Reads Patrizia Cavalli

The New Yorker: Poetry

CHAPTER

The Poems of Raleigh Fingers and Samuel Butler

There's a kind of bitter sweetness in the poem that isn't simply just sorrow, at least to me. It makes laughter out of these observations. And i should have included raleigh fingers in my introduction, because he was a famous reliever way back. I mean, aman even, butler. Thereye.

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