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"In Punctum:, Lesley Jenike's new collection, she writes, 'It's our language: what can we call a thing that is and is not.' These poems are haunted by a 'non-child,' a child who was not to be born, and with it, a life the speaker was not to live. Absence itself bec...

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Autor principal: Jenike, Lesley (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Kent, Ohio : The Kent State University Press, 2017.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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