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Fall 2025 • Vol. XLVII No. 4 • Poetry |

Wiscasset Train

By C. S. Giscombe

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S. Giscombe lives in Berkeley, California. His most recent books are Negro Mountain (University of Chicago Press, 2023) and—in collaboration with the book artist Judith Margolis—Train Music (Omnidawn 2021). His work has won for him an American Book Award and the Carl Sandburg Prize. Books in progress include Railroad Sense and Medicine Book/The Book of Monsters. He is a long-distance cyclist.

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