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More PoemsMiracle Ice Cream
Miracle's truck comes down the little avenue, Scott Joplin ragtime strewn behind it like pearls, and, yes, you can feel happy with one piece of your heart. Take what's still given: in a room's rich shadow a woman's breasts swinging lightly as she bends. Early now the pearl of dusk dissolves. Late, you sit weighing the evening news, fast-food miracles, ghostly revolutions, the rest of your heart.
1995
My Philosophy of Life
Just when I thought there wasn't room enough
for another thought in my head, I had this great idea—
call it a philosophy of life, if you will. Briefly,
it involved living the way philosophers live,
according to a set of principles. OK, but which ones?
1995
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Read more about >Ellen Bass is the author of Indigo (Copper Canyon Press, 2020). She is a Chancellor Emerita of the Academy of American Poets.
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Read more about >Vievee Francis is the author of Forest Primeval (Northwestern University Press, 2015).
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Stuart Dybek is the author of two poetry collections: Streets in Their Own Ink (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2004) and Brass Knuckles (University of Pittsburgh Press, 1979). He attended Loyola University Chicago and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop.Read more about >
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Books
| Title | Author | Type | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Borderland Apocrypha | Anthony Cody | Poetry Book | |
| Year of the Dog | Deborah Paredez | Poetry Book | |
| The Malevolent Volume | Justin Phillip Reed | Poetry Book | |
| Indigo | Ellen Bass | Poetry Book | |
| DMZ Colony | Don Mee Choi |