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Source: Poetry (January 2011).

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This poem originally appeared in the January 2011 issue of Poetry magazine

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Biography

Joel Lipman teaches at the University of Toledo. His recent work includes an illustrated preface to the republication of Bern Porter's Found Poems (Nightboat Books, 2011).

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Poems by Joel Lipman

• from “Origins of Poetry”
• It Is Out Of Focus

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