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Winter 2008 • Vol. XXX No. 1 • Poetry |

Noise like Wings

By Paul Otremba

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Paul Otremba is the author of the poetry collection The Currency, published by Four Way Books. His poems and criticism have appeared in such places as New England Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, The Washington Post, Poetry Daily, Tikkun, and American Poets in the 21st Century: The New Poetics.

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