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Anna Moschovakis

She is the author of two books of poetry, You and Three Others Are Approaching a Lake (Coffee House Press, 2011), winner of the James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets...
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Death as a Way of Life [It began:]
by Anna Moschovakis

It began: 1. Life is not fair 2. How can I be happy while others suffer 3. How can I not be happy while others suffer 4. Others will suffer whether or not I am happy 5. It is not the suffering of others that causes my happiness 6. It is not the not-suffering of others that causes my unhappiness 8. I have been attracted to the idea that naming is a form of violence but does that mean we should go around calling everyone Hey You which seems like another sort of violence even though it is a way of recognizing the other as other What can be said on this point?

From You and Three Others Are Approaching a Lake by Anna Moschovakis. Copyright © 2011 by Anna Moschovakis. Published by Coffee House Press. Used by permission of the publisher. All rights reserved.

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