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A Savage Scrutiny

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Dispatch from the Storm Warning; Dispatch from a Rusted Railroad Spike

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Life Studies from the Dismal Trade

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Sestina Minus One; A Buoyant Future for Us All

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Philosophical

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Saint John Chrysostom at the Grammys? Sacred Sounds in Recent Recordings

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Pandemic Theater

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Class Warfare at the Movies

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(Pandemic) Prison Reading: Eight Novels to Pass the Time

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Escape Routes: The Sergeant’s Sister; What Now?

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John Carey: A Little History

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Letter to the Editor

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A Scene of Sorrow While Traveling; The Queen of the Internet; Ghazal; A Butterfly Without Wings

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In the Season of Grief and Consolation

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Vivet

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Lately Belated

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Bevis’ Fun

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Alternative Facts

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Marbles with Nils; Never Know

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Archimedes; Since time is a dense substance impossible to alter

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Blackbeard’s Head

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Death Eye

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Winter Landscape, Probably 1811; Crows at Dusk

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And: A Spring Forecast; The Yellow Moth; Remembering Sunflowers

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The Hour

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The Twin

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Composed

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My Eye Found It; Leavetaking

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Skyhaven; A Story; Butterfly

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Hrafn

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Divine Reticence; Grit; Animal Espionage; Cigarettes and Diapers

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Last Rites

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Wendell Berry and Yoknapatawpha

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From Vienna to Leningrad

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Memorable Correspondents: The Kenner/Davenport Letters

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Mutatis Mutandis

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Coleridge the Trailblazer

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An Epic Amusement

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Randall Jarrell and Adrienne Rich: A Found Guide to Mutual Appreciation

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Reflections of a Dinosaur

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An Appreciation: W. S. Merwin, 1927–2019

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Dear Sister; The Hooves

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If the Older I Get the Less I Know—

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Poem beginning with a line from Paul Monette; Poem beginning with a line from Rilke; Rondeau

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On Winning My Second Nobel; December Pavan

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Amazing Grace; Persephone Says Goodbye

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Respite

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Low-Budget Pleasures

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When the World Gets Weird, We Cry for Sci-Fi (and Fantasy)

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Updike Novels

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