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Summer 2007 • Vol. XXIX No. 3 • Poetry |

The Imitation of Things Familiar

By William Logan

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William Logan’s most recent book of poetry is Rift of Light (Penguin, 2017); his most recent book of criticism, Broken Ground: Poetry and the Demon of History (Columbia University Press, 2021). He teaches at the University of Florida.

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