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The transformative new book from “one of the most important American poets at work today” (Dunya Mikhail)

I am content because before me looms the hope of love.

I do not have it; I do not yet have it.

It is a bird strong enough to lead me by the rope it bites;

unless I pull, it is strong enough for me.

I do worry the end of my days might come and I will not yet have it. But even then I will be brave

upon my deathbed, and why shouldn’t I be?

I held things here, and I felt them.

—From “Psalm 40”

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