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quiet seventeen-year-old Mari works the front desk as her mother tends to the off-season customers
and life stretches out long and lonely ahead of them
Makes a wonderful birthday gift
we are faced with the fact that nearly every aspect of modern life now takes place in filtered
Post & Line: Poems Mike Chase Center StageDamrosch's new collection of poetry, Post & Line, brims with connection and community, both with humans (bank tellers, grocery baggers, neighbors, family) and through visitations with all sorts of creatures (owls, kiskadees, Carolina wrens, goldfinches, to name a few). Words themselves also come within the scope of her acute attention. The words need us, she writes, to form them again in our clumsy mouths, swaddling them with our thick tongues. At one