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The Book of Possibilities

Poetry Off the Shelf

CHAPTER

The Six Letters of the Hebrew Alphabet

The poem is dedicated to Jeffrey Hartman, one of the great literary critics. "This upright letter bows its head ever so slightly out of humility," he writes. It's a summoning from within it or him to listen hard to what's barely there and maybe not quite yet between the lines to sit,. taking a stand and read, learning straightness and when to bend.

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