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David Baker Reads Stanley Plumly

The New Yorker: Poetry

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The Eye in the Falls

This poem has every pronoun in it that you'd ever want. It's a very social poem, though it seems to be so intimate, so whispered. Even if we were to go to Niagara Falls by ourselves, we're still with all the others there. That announcement of the first person singular at the very end is kind of a surprise.

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