wishbone, richard siken
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Markus Zusak, The Book Thief (2004).
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Anne Carson, Plainwater: Essays and Poetry
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Rainer Maria Rilke, from Where Silence Reigns: Selected Prose; “The Lay of the Love and Death of Cornet Christoph Rilke,"
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Mary Oliver, from “I Don't Want to Be Demure or Respectable”, Blue Horses
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Claire C. Holland, from I Am Not Your Final Girl: Poems; “Dana”
[Text ID: “I never wanted this. Never / tried to be good, or pure. / They asked for sacrifice, / an offering / of the body, never mind / my mind.”]
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Trace Evidence, Charif Shanahan
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Sappho, from If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho; tr. by Anne Carson
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prayer, jorie graham
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Anna Akhmatova, tr. by Lenore Mayhew and William Mcnaughton, from Poem Without A Hero and Selected Poems; “In a dream”
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In Accelerated Silence, Brooke Matson
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Nikki Giovanni, The Collected Poetry, 1968-1998
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Charles Baudelaire, Complete Poems; ‘Tableaux Parisiens’ from 'Last Light’, tr. Walter Martin
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Margaret Atwood, Morning in the Burned House; from ‘Shapechangers in Winter’
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Safia Elhillo, from Girls That Never Die: Poems; “Geneva”
[Text ID: “To ask for help would be to speak & of course we never spoke.”]
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