Dominion
by Carl Phillips • from Green Mountains Review
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Carl Phillips
Carl Phillips is the author of eleven books of poems, most recently Speak Low (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2009), and Double Shadow, forthcoming from FSG in 2011.
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Lannan 2010-11 Readings& Conversations
Jimmy Santiago Baca
with Carolyn Forché
Wednesday Sept. 15 2010
The Lensic, Santa Fe, NM
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