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

A Prayer Against Etiquette

By Patrick Rosal

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Patrick Rosal is the author of The Last Thing: New and Selected Poems (Persea Books, 2021), winner of the William Carlos Williams Award. He has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Fulbright research program. A distinguished professor at Rutgers University – Camden, Rosal is working on a collection of prayer poems as well as a prose book on the sacred.

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