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Helen Burns Poetry Anthology: New Voices features winning poems from the past ten years of the Academy's University & College Prize program, selected by Mark Doty.
Spotlight Poet Leslie Scalapino
Engaged with—though markedly separate from—the Language School poets, Leslie Scalapino is a publisher and poet whose work, according to Lydia Davis, "reveals how far language—and therefore thought itself—can go beyond what we are accustomed to..."
Spotlight Essay Our Common Heritage: On Wislawa Szymborska
"Szymborska's 'I' is an ascetic 'I,' cleansed not only of the desire to confess, but of any individuating features, and yet it is linked to the 'I' of all others who share in the human condition..."
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