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Mar/Apr 2018 • Vol. XL No. 2 • Book Review |

“Within Stone / the Mind Writhes”

By Jonathan Farmer

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Jonathan Farmer is the editor in chief and poetry editor of At Length and Critic at Large for the Kenyon Review. He has written about poetry for publications that include Slate.com, Literary Hub, Los Angeles Review of Books, and the Poetry Foundation. He teaches middle and high school English and lives in Durham, NC.

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