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Fall 2010 • Vol. XXXII No. 4 Poetry |

Pain Can Warn Us of Danger

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John Gallaher’s most recent book is Map of the Folded World (University of Akron Press, 2009). More of his poetry can be seen in the Fall 2010 issue of The Kenyon Review.

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