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David Baker Reads Stanley Plumly

The New Yorker: Poetry

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The Rumble of Radio

The poem is about death and the people in the reindeer who want to see it. The couplets are closed at the beginning of the poem, but then there's this first turn. "There's a kind of rejuvenative, hopeful moment in there," he says.

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