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Fall 2012 • Vol. XXXIV No. 4 • Nonfiction |

Feeling Tense

By James Longenbach

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James Longenbach’s fourth collection of poems, The Iron Key, was published by Norton in the fall of 2010. He is the Joseph Gilmore Professor of English at the University of Rochester and the author, most recently, of The Art of the Poetic Line (Graywolf, 2008).

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