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Introit & Fugue
D. Nurkse, “Introit and Fugue” from The Rules of Paradise (New York: Four Way Books, 2001). Used by permission of Four Way Books.
Source: Poetry (August 1990).
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Biography
D. Nurkse is the author of numerous collections of poetry, including The Rules of Paradise (2001), The Fall (2003), and The Border Kingdom (2008). His parents escaped Nazi Europe during World War II—his Estonian father worked for the League of Nations in Vienna, his mother was an artist—and moved to New York. Nurkse’s family moved back to live in Europe for a number of years, returning to the United States around the time of the . . .
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SUBJECT Family & Ancestors, Music, Living, Arts & Sciences, Relationships, Death
POET’S REGION U.S., Mid-Atlantic
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