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“The Angel of Retail,” by Robert Pinsky by Robert Pinsky

“Your spirit of grace in the taffy machine’s chrome arms / At Morris’s Candy performing a sarabande / Unknitting and knitting again immaculate sweets.”

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"Astounding Stories," by Robert Pinsky by Robert Pinsky

"Fear of the foreign and the fear of being foreign."

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