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Fall 2009 • Vol. XXXI No. 4 Poetry |

Attila the Gypsy Shakes Her Cup

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Alice Notley’s latest books are Songs and Stories of the Ghouls; Culture of One; and Reason and Other Women. She lives and writes in Paris.

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