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Jan/Feb 2019 • Vol. XLI No. 1 • Poetry |

Incantation

By Jerzy Ficowski, Piotr Sommer, and Jennifer Grotz

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Jennifer Grotz is the author of The Needle and Cusp and translator from French of Patrice de La Tour du Pin’s Psalms of All My Days, recently published by Carnegie Mellon University Press. She teaches at the University of Rochester and serves as assistant director of the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference.

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