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Jan 12, 2013

Tea at the Palaz of Hoon
by Wallace Stevens
Not less because in purple I descended

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Martín Espada
Born in Brooklyn, Martín Espada is the author of several collections of poetry, including Imagine the Angels of Bread—which won an American Book Award and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award.

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Her Kind
by Anne Sexton

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Sincerely Ironic
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Notes Toward Beauty
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