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Summer 1985 • Vol. VII No. 3 • A Poem |

Against the Meanwhile

By Mark Irwin

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MARK IRWIN’s fifth collection of poetry, Bright Hunger, appeared from BOA in 2004. He teaches at the University of Southern California and divides his time between there and his home in Colorado.

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