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Rachel Eliza Griffiths Reads W.S. Merwin

The New Yorker: Poetry

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A Cecil, a New Yorker's Poem

Coulson: I had never tried to write about cecil. It was the collision of all these things, kind of being dead or dying and then cecil there brought them together which made me actually think i could write about them. She says she mentioned her mother in a poem as well; "in a way, i was able to pull her, in her presence"

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