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Eliot Weinberger
Patty Crane on Translation and Influence
"Somewhere along the way, my immersion in Tranströmer and my search for a sense of place merged. As if the poetry became the place, and the place the poetry."
By
Patty Crane
| October 27, 2023
That Which Calls Us: On Writing About God's Word
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By
Z.L. Nickels
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Diana Arterian
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By
Anna Aslanyan
| June 21, 2021
After Images: Encountering the Work of Beverley Farmer
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The Bone House
in Rome
By
Josephine Rowe
| March 11, 2021
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By
Christina Farella
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by
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by
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by
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