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Creations
Selected by Billy Merrell
Description

A cluster of creation narratives, from Native American prayers to Milton's take Christian parable.
Synopsis

A cluster of creation narratives: whether myth or truth.
 
Poetry
The Creation by James Weldon Johnson
The Thanksgivings by Harriet Maxwell Converse
The Creation of the Moon by Anonymous
Paradise Lost, Book IV, [The Argument] by John Milton
One A.M. [excerpt] by David Young
Essay on Man, Epistle II by Alexander Pope
Creation by Kendel Hippolyte
In the Beginning by Anne Pierson Wiese
Lovers' Infiniteness by John Donne
Now that no one looking by Adam Kirsch
Placements I: "The New Wilderness" by Clayton Eshleman
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