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July/Aug 2017 • Vol. XXXIX No. 4 • Poetry |

The Worst

By Grace Schulman

   The worst is not
   So long as we can say, “This is the worst.”
     — Edgar, in King Lear

 

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Grace Schulman’s seventh collection of poems, Without a Claim, was published in September 2013 from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (Mariner Booka). She is Distinguished Professor, Baruch College, CUNY.

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Why do I write of hickories, whose boughs touch other boughs across a slender road, when our neighbor, Haneen, born in Gaza, cried that a missile ripped her niece apart […]

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