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Rachel Eliza Griffiths is a poet and visual artist. Her most recent collection of poetry, Lighting the Shadow (Four Way Books), was published in 2015. Griffiths teaches creative writing at Sarah Lawrence College and Institute of American Indian Arts. She lives in Brooklyn.
Williams observes, with courage and fragility, his own mortality and promise.
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