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Robert Olen Butler

Poetry

Spring 2008

Intercourse

By Robert Olen Butler

James Joyce, 24, writer Nora Barnacle, 22, his wife in their apartment on the Via Giovanni Boccaccio, Trieste, May 23, 1906 James in the midst she’s suddenly ghosteyed and boyfingered […]