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It’s Like a New Reality, Man: A Discussion of Wallace Stevens’s “Not Ideas about the Thing, But the Thing Itself”

February 3, 2009

Hosted by Al Filreis and featuring poets Charles Bernstein, Nada Gordon, and Lawrence Joseph.

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