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Quan Barry

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The first great poet of …

Quan Barry

One day we will all be like this—the boat’s sickening pitch, & the delicateness …

Quan Barry

Shagged-gold, at rest the great haunches …

Quan Barry

Listen closely as I sing this. The man standing at the gate …

Quan Barry

Say, when we woke those icy spring mornings they were still there. …

Quan Barry

Somebody says draw a map. Populate it with the incidents …

Quan Barry

I have come to realize the body is its own pyre, that degree …

Quan Barry

Nowhere in the Halakha’s five thousand years of rules …

Quan Barry

Literally the thing has been gutted, a ragged gash …

Quan Barry

Tonight we will function like women. …

Quan Barry

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