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Friday, September 18, 2009

Think of Empire as a Video Game

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Posted by Philip Metres at 12:57 PM

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Christopher Kempf said...

"It's chief exports are heroine and vengeance."

I was LOL in the library.

September 18, 2009 3:20 PM

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Poetry books include *To See the Earth,* *Instants,* *Primer for Non-Native Speakers,* *Catalogue of Comedic Novelties: Selected Poems of Lev Rubinstein,* and A Kindred Orphanhood: Selected Poems of Sergey Gandlevsky*. Scholarship: *Behind the Lines: War Resistance Poetry on the American Homefront Since 1941.*
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