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Tracy K. Smith Reads Matthew Dickman

The New Yorker: Poetry

NOTE

Metaphor Leading the Path of the Poem

The chosen poem makes vigorous use of a metaphor that is set up early in the poem and followed through, leading its own path and portraying the quiet but persistent urgencies of American life.

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