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David Baker Reads Stanley Plumly

The New Yorker: Poetry

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The Fragmentation of a Poem

I think about that as an invocation at the very beginning come down to us. Be seeking please come down here and the birds also signal the different landscapes the poems all over the place. I worked hard on these little phrases and little clauses rather than a big beautiful thing, wanted that kind of more scattered movement in the syntax.

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