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DeSales Harrison

DeSales Harrison is Associate Professor of poetry at Oberlin College and the author of The End of the Mind: The Edge of the Intelligible in Hardy, Stevens, Larkin, Plath, and Glück.

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"I am less inclined to imagine a future for my students in which poetry has been restored to its rightful freedom as pure pleasure."
DeSales Harrison
DeSales Harrison

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