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Poetry

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Poems from the China Album:

“Arrival”
“While Someone Is Talking”
“Rain”
“The You of China”
“Two Views”
“Equal Opportunity”
“Hallucinate, Flu, Tiananmen Square”
“Mao Blue”
“Arrival in Retrospect”

Selected Poems:

“Transmission”
“Widening the Circle”
“Imprinting”
“If I Had Not Gone to Santa Fe”
“Jane on a Book”
“Unedited”
“Living in Water“

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