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A Year in Reading: Zoë Ruiz

560 fires were burning in California the weekend I finished Heart Like a Window, Mouth Like a Cliff by , a powerful poetry collection that had me falling in love with Fresno as well as contemplating daughterhood and the heartbreak and violence that comes with it. Structurally, I was impressed by the way the book moved — the poems moved into one another, unfolded, and echoed.

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