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Sept/Oct 2021 • Vol. XLIII No. 5 • Poetry |

The Dybbuk Ascends

By Hadara Bar-Nadav

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Hadara Bar-Nadav is an NEA Fellow and author of several award-winning collections of poetry, among them The New Nudity, Lullaby (with Exit Sign), The Frame Called Ruin, and others. In addition, she is coauthor of the best-selling textbook Writing Poems, eighth edition. She is a professor of English and teaches in the MFA program at the University of Missouri–Kansas City.

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