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Lunch Poems
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Start date
January 17, 2015
Finish date
January 25, 2015

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Jennifer
Apr 14, 2018 rated it really liked it  ·  review of another edition
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I've been meaning to read this book since falling in love with "Why I am Not a Painter" back when I took that Modern Poetry class. I slipped into my bag when I was heading out to take my twelve-year-old to the ACT -- and read most of it while sitting with the other parents of adolescents taking the test early -- and occasionally giggling, to the surprise of the other parents.

But the early poems are so well-crafted, so light and funny and accessible and easy. Making me wish I lived the kind of li
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