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Savage Beauty: The Top 3 Poems Of 2011

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Three of my favorite poems from collections appearing in 2011 — Space, in Chains; Money Shot; and Bringing the Shovel Down — challenge the reader's relationship with the every day by casting recognizable features of the world in an eerie new light.

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Tracy K. Smith

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