Poetry
[A Theory Is Drawn], [Coaxed – Sculpted to Admit – of Suddenness]
[A Theory Is Drawn]
[Coaxed – Sculpted to Admit – of Suddenness]
Contributor
Lisa LubaschLisa Lubasch is the author of To Tell the Lamp (Avec Books, 2004), How Many More of Them Are You? (1999, winner of the Norma Farber First Book Award), and Vicinities (2001). She is the translator of Paul Éluard's A Moral Lesson, forthcoming from Green Integer Books in August 2005.
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