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Jan/Feb 2021 • Vol. XLIII No. 1 • Poetry |

Unit of Measure

By Jenny Xie

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Jenny Xie is the author of Eye Level (Graywolf, 2018) and The Rupture Tense (Graywolf, 2022), both finalists for the National Book Award. She teaches at Bard College and lives in New York City.

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