Poetry - Winter 2008

Two Poems

By Stephen Cushman

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Stephen Cushman is Robert C. Taylor Professor of English at the University of Virginia. His latest book of poems is Heart Island, and he is serving as general editor of a new edition of the Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, now in progress.