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

This Mortal Body

By Stanley Plumly

Yet can I gulp a bumper to thy name,—
O smile among the shades, for this is fame!

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Stanley Plumly’s most recent book of poems is Orphan Hours (W.W. Norton, 2012). His collection Old Heart won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the Paterson Poetry Prize and was a finalist for the National Book Award. In 2015, his book of prose The Immortal Evening won the Truman Capote Prize for Literary Criticism. Plumly is a Distinguished University Professor at the University of Maryland. In 2010 he was elected to membership in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

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