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How Should One Read a Book?

Read as if one were writing it
Virginia Woolf
A painting of a woman reading at a table.
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Mock Orange

Louise Glück
Poetry

Vespers

Louise Glück
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To a Friend in Time of Trouble

Thom Gunn
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The Hug

Thom Gunn

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Graphic with pudding. Illustration by Laura Padilla Castellanos
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Cantilever

John Ashbery
October 1, 1995
Graphic with dishwasher and birdhouses. Illustration by Laura Padilla Castellanos
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I, Too

John Ashbery
October 1, 1995
Young James Merrill with his pet terrier at "The Orchard" in 1930.
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Cosmo

James Merrill
April 1, 1994
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The Supreme Moment

Charles Simic
July 1, 1993
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Endings

Mona Van Duyn
April 1, 1992
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From My Cornell Notebooks

Charles Simic
April 1, 1992
Antoine-François-Jean Claudet, “[Multiple Exposures of the Moon],” 1846-52. Courtesy Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
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In Those Years

Adrienne Rich
April 1, 1992
An open mouth; Illustration by Laura Padilla Castellanos
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September Twilight

Louise Glück
April 1, 1992
A stack of old issues of The Yale Review. Courtesy Pentagram
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Short Talks

Anne Carson
July 1, 1991
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"The Waste Land" Revisited

Helen Vendler
December 1, 1990