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    Patty Crane

    Dec 11, 2019 2 minutes

    as if desire is a kind of blindness
    that listening unveils
    —from “Frogsong”

    HOW IT BEGAN: I didn’t set out to write a book. I set out to write the poems that came to me and compelled me to keep writing. Poem by poem, that writing was mainly driven by my daily life,

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