JONATHAN GOLD (author of Counter Intelligence: Where to Eat in the Real Los Angeles)

Monologue of a Dog by Wislawa Szymborska (Harcourt). Fragments of time pinned wriggling like live butterflies under glass; easy philosophical conversation compressed to the density of single points in space, Szymborska poems are like nothing else in nature or in art.

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