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Winter 2025 • Vol. XLVII No. 1 • Far Corners Folio |

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By Benjamin Gucciardi

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Originally from San Francisco, Benjamin Gucciardi had his first book, West Portal (University of Utah Press, 2021), selected by Gabrielle Calvocoressi for the Agha Shahid Ali Prize in Poetry. His poems have appeared in AGNI, American Poetry Review, Poetry, On Being’s Poetry Unbound, and elsewhere.

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