LITMIR.BIZ

      IMMEDIATE SONG

      ALSO BY DON BOGEN

      Poetry

       An Algebra

       Luster

       The Known World

       After the Splendid Display

      Translation

       Europa: Selected Poems of Julio Martínez Mesanza

      Criticism

       A Necessary Order: Theodore Roethke and the Writing Process

      IMMEDIATE SONG

      Poems

      DON BOGEN

      MILKWEED EDITIONS

      © 2019, Text by Don Bogen

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      Published 2019 by Milkweed Editions

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      Cover illustration: The Rand-McNally New Commercial Atlas Map of Cincinnati and Environs, Cincinnati, 1912

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