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July/Aug 2022 • Vol. XLIV No. 4 • Poetry |

Gnostic Spring, or That New York Times Article on Languishing

By Erika Meitner

We have all stroked the face of God or
someone else lightly with our fingertips,

but making the mystery of the unseen
manifest didn’t help us with the ever-growing

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Erika Meitner is the author of six books of poems, including Useful Junk (BOA Editions, 2022) and Holy Moly Carry Me (BOA Editions, 2018), which was the winner of the 2018 National Jewish Book Award and a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. She is currently a professor of English at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.

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