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Jan/Feb 2020 • Vol. XLII No. 1 |

An Excerpt from “An Alphabet of Here: A Wisconsin Prairie Sampler”

By Alison Townsend

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Alison Townsend is the author of two award-winning books of poetry, The Blue Dress and Persephone in America, and a volume of prose, The Persistence of Rivers: An Essay on Moving Water. Professor Emerita of English at the University of Wisconsin–Whitewater, she lives in the country outside Madison.

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