The Instant of Knowing: Lectures, Criticism, and Occasional Prose of Josephine Jacobsen
Copyright © 2018 by Elizabeth Spires
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Title: A memory of the future : poems / Elizabeth Spires.
Description: First edition. | New York : W. W. Norton & Company, [2018] | Includes bibliographical references.
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