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Jorie Graham is author of Place, Sea Change, Overlord, and many other books of poems. Her collection The Dream of the Unified Field won the 1996 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. She teaches at Harvard University.
In the market of ideas, of meat
—in the teeth of need—you
will never be happy with
your body—it is not the right
body . . .
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