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Edwin Torres

Brand World Atheist

The Levi’s ad using Walt Whitman’s poem “America” repositions Levis within their target– audience, as a hip company making cool jeans because they’re using a poet to ‘empower’ America’s youth. Here’s to empowerment, I think?

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A selection of new work from Dorothea Grossman; new poems by Lavinia Greenlaw, David Yezzi, A.E. Stallings, Gerald Stern, and Dan Gerber; translations of Carlo Betocchi, and Mahmoud Darwish; an Editorial on Ruth Lilly; an exchange between Ilya Kaminsky and Adam Kirsch; an essay by Chen Li; and a review by Daisy Fried.

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