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Current Issue • Vol. XLVIII No. 1 • Poetry |

Ecstatic Past

By Alicia Mountain

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Alicia Mountain is the author of Four in Hand (BOA Editions, 2023) and High Ground Coward (University of Iowa Press, 2018), which won the Iowa Poetry Prize. She lives in New York City, where she writes and practices psychoanalysis. Mountain is a core faulty member and assistant teaching professor in the Brooklyn Writers Foundry low-residency MFA program.

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