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

The Sower Against Gardens

By Linda Gregerson

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Linda Gregerson’s most recent book, Prodigal: New and Selected Poems, was published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt in 2015. She is the Caroline Walker Bynum Distinguished University Professor of English at the University of Michigan.

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