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Be yond

By Joel Lipman

Source: Poetry (January 2011)
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Be yond

By Joel Lipman
About this Poet

Joel Lipman's recent work includes an illustrated preface to the republication of Bern Porter's Found Poems (Nightboat Books, 2011). In 2008 he was appointed the first poet laureate of Lucas county. He is professor emeritus of English at the University of Toledo and the founder of ABRACADABRA...

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