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Billy Collins
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Billy Collins – The Dead

June 2, 2021May 25, 2021 Vanessa Able

Billy Collins runs with the folkloric notion that the dead are watching us and pushes the image all the way to a reverie of the departed 'rowing themselves slowly through eternity' in glass-bottomed boats.

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Jonathan Koven
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Jonathan Koven – Stilled Wings Will Soar

April 26, 2021April 26, 2021 Vanessa Able

Inspired by the desire to point at a star and give it a name: Jonathan Koven's 'Stilled Wings Will Soar'

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