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Philip Levine Reads Ellen Bass

The New Yorker: Poetry

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The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner

"I was truly envious of this poem and I was glad that this woman had come back from God knows where to write a poem like this," he says. "It goes back in some ways to William Shakespeare, Do I love you? Let me count the ways." The young thought it was gore at one time but her friend told her, 'No, no, no,no, no, it's beautiful'

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