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Winter 2001 • Vol. XXIII No. 1 • Poetry |

Flimsy

By Michael Ryan

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Michael Ryan is director of the MFA Program in Poetry at the University of California–Irvine. His books have won the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award and the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize, among many other awards. His new book of poems, This Morning, will be published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt in March.

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