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Fall 2013 • Vol. XXXV No. 4 • Poetry |

Elegy in Which I Refuse to Turn Away

By Corey Van Landingham

Hospice recommended we starve him. I did.

I can sleep all day. Things happen and my father dies.

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Corey Van Landingham
Corey Van Landingham is the author of Antidote. A recipient of a 2017 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship and a Wallace Stegner Fellowship from Stanford University, she is currently a Book Review Editor for Kenyon Review.

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