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Summer 1991 • Vol. XIII No. 3 Poetry |

Dead Doe: I

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Brigit Pegeen Kelly was the author of The Orchard (American Poets Continuum, 2004), Song (BOA Editions, 1995), which was the 1994 Lamont Poetry Selection of The Academy of American Poets, and To The Place of Trumpets (1987), which was selected by James Merrill for the Yale Series of Younger Poets. Her poems have appeared in many periodicals, including Gettysburg Review, Kenyon Review, and Yale Review, and her work was chosen for the 1993 and 1994 volumes of The Best American Poetry.

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