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January reading

Dictee, Theresa Hak Kyung Cha
God of Nothingness, Mark Wunderlich
The Descend of Alette, Alice Notley
alphabet, Inger Christensen
Hybrids of Plants and of Ghosts, Jorie Graham
Border-Crosser with a Lamborghini Dream, Juan Felipe Herrera
 

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