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May/June 2017 • Vol. XXXIX No. 3 • Nature's Nature |

plenty

By Beth Bachmann

make me lonely as an animal

with everything to eat in winter

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Beth Bachmann is a 2016 Guggenheim Fellow and author of three books in the Pitt Poetry Series: Temper, winner of the Association of Writers & Writing Program’s Donald Hall Prize for Poetry and Claremont Graduate University’s Kate Tufts Discovery Award; Do Not Rise, winner of the Poetry Society of America’s Alice Fay Di Castagnola Award; and CEASE, winner of the Virginia Quarterly Review’s Emily Clark Balch Prize for Poetry (fall 2018). She lives in New York City.

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nature

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the landscape is triggered with post-romantic stress the world is unmastered again all we see is light from the bomb terror comes before horror because thereis no reason not to […]

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Face

By Beth Bachmann

Facial recognition is encoded, or acquired, from birth.Newborn infants will stare at a face longer than any other pattern. Already have an account? Log in Join KR for even more […]

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