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Spring 2005 • Vol. XXVII No. 2 • Poetry |

Scar Tissue II

By Charles Wright

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Charles Wright’s most recent collection of poems is Bye-and-Bye (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux). He lives in Charlottesville, Virginia, and recently retired from the University of Virginia. Wright was named poet laureate of the United States in the summer of 2014.

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