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“My family stands / at its end, stops / storm-thrashed / on a forest’s fringe”
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"The story of Edward the Leopard was a delicate, even ticklish, matter."
“A lot of things that fascinated me clearly had a lot to do with my navigating a simultaneously segregated and integrated world.”
"When I was a newborn baby, one of the first things she said to me was, 'We will have fun in this life—we will go shopping!'"
“I like it when I’m looking / At a woman’s wrists / I like it when a woman likes to look at my wrists”
“My colleague Alassio is the only person left at the school where I teach who believes that the working class is the engine of history.”
“I fell like this for years, / in the fishy air. I stopped panicking. / I could think as I fell.”