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By Leslie Adrienne Miller

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Leslie Adrienne Miller’s collections of poetry include Y (2012), The Resurrection Trade (2007), and Eat Quite Everything You See (2002) from Graywolf Press, and Yesterday Had a Man in It (1998), Ungodliness (1994), and Staying Up for Love (1990) from Carnegie Mellon University Press.

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