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PLUNGE BY ALICE JONES: shut up, self, i can't hear the truth

PLUNGE BY ALICE JONES: shut up, self, i can’t hear the truth

November 5, 2012
Evan Karp
Book Review, REVIEWS

First, this, from James Merrill‘s great poem “The Thousand and Second Night:” “Form’s what affirms.” If Merrill is right, then Alice Jones‘ Plunge (Apogee) is superlatively…

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