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Summer 2010 • Vol. XXXII No. 3 • Poetry |

What Doesn’t Kill You

By C. Dale Young

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C. Dale Young is the author of three collections of poetry, most recently Torn (Four Way Books, 2011). A recent Guggenheim Fellow in Poetry, he is a 2013 Fellow of the Rockefeller Foundation. He lives in San Francisco, California, and practices medicine full-time.

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