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For Cortez, poetry was not about mastery of form. Poetry in the mouth of the Firespitter was the creation of form.

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On a years-long endeavor to translate Ausländer’s poems for the first essential selection to be published in the United States.

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Vinegar

By Sarah Barber
That summer I got very thin
on my diet of  he-loves-me-not:
kale, fried egg, a tomato melted...
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Li-Young Lee

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