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    Having None of It
    Having None of It
    Having None of It
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    Having None of It

    By Adrienne Su

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    In this third collection, award-winning poet Adrienne Su reflects deeply about the circumstances in which people are forced to remake themselves: as parents, as immigrants, as people whose marriages have ended, as people who’ve wound up in a place they never intended to settle.

    From “Breakup”:

    Another ending finds its place
    among novels, lives, summers
    that fled, but this kind has a way
    of getting filed under failure:

    yes, the relationship failed,
    if to fail is to fail to endure.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherManic D Press, Inc.
    Release dateNov 18, 2012
    ISBN9781933149783
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