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End of 2020 reading

Finished, from the summer:

    Gregory Pardlo, Digest 
    Vijay Seshadri, 3 Sections 

Started and finished since then:

    Sarah Howe, Loop of Jade
    D.A. Powell, Useless Landscape, or A Guide for Boys
    Myung Mi Kim, Commons
    Alice Oswald, Dart
    Alice Oswald, Falling Awake
    Marilyn Chin, Rhapsody in Plain Yellow
    Franz Wright, Walking to Martha's Vineyard 
    Charles Wright, Caribou

In progress:

    Jorie Graham, Sea Change
    Carmen Gimenez Smith, Be Recorder
    Cathy Park Hong, Engine Empire
    Christian Bok, Eunoia

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