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Looking for God with A.R. Ammons

Paul Giamatti reads "A Noiseless Patient Spider" by Walt Whitman and Charlotte Maier reads "Hymn" by A.R. Ammons.

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A Noiseless Patient Spider

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Originally appeared in Poetry magazine.

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