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Laura Kasischke is Professor of English at the University of Michigan and author of Space, in Chains and The Raising.
Owen Barfield wrote of the “felt change of consciousness” that occurs when a reader encounters a true poem. I read poems every day longing to experience that, and when I read Ann Marie Thornburg’s, I do.
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