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Cecily Parks is the author of the poetry collections Field Folly Snow (2008) and O'Nights (2015), and editor of The Echoing Green: Poems of Fields, Meadows, and Grasses (2016). She teaches in the MFA Program in Creative Writing at Texas State University.
Jorie Graham’s Fast marks the fraught presence of an environmentally inclined writer whose most immediate environment, the body, confronts a foreclosed future.
Muriel Rukeyser's recently uncovered novel tells the story of a young woman coming of age—politically, sexually, intellectually—in a country at war.
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