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D.S. Waldman
Low Poetics: On Cubism, Disability, and the Distance Between the Reader and the Poem
D.S. Waldman Considers the Work of John Ashbery, Ben Lerner, and Georges Braque
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D.S. Waldman
| June 11, 2024
A Poetics of Failure: On the Truths That Lie Between Words
D.S. Waldman Considers the Unbridgeable Gap Between Poetry and Any Single Poem
By
D.S. Waldman
| August 15, 2022
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