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Kate Baer Reads Ellen Bass

The New Yorker: Poetry

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Lyrical and Musical Poetry with a Focus on Public and Private Realms

The poet writes by ear, creating a lyrical and musical style in her poems. The poem explores the concept of the form of things not being the things themselves, focusing on the daily rhyming versus nighttime rhyming, and the distinction between the public and private realms. This exploration reflects the poet's interest in philosophy within poems.

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