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Summer 2004 • Vol. XXVI No. 3 • Poetry |

Scenes from the Battle of Us

By Cate Marvin

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Cate Marvin has published four books of poems, most recently Event Horizon (Copper Canyon Press, 2022). She teaches at the College of Staten Island, City University of New York, and lives in Southern Maine.

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