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Average rating: 4.03 · 60 ratings · 14 reviews · 3 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Traces 3.94 avg rating — 47 ratings — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ploughshares Winter 2016-2017 by Bill Knott, Tony Hoagland, Rob Arnold 4.30 avg rating — 10 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Kenyon Review, Mar/Apr 2019 by Kenyon Review, Shane McCrae (Goodreads Author), Segun Afolabi 4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Quotes by Mairead Small Staid (?)

“You could say I missed a place. You could say I missed a time, or a place and a time, or the person I was in that place and time--all of these things would be true. You could say I missed a particular season of a particular year when I lived in a city now thousands of miles away and many years ago. That distance widens by the hour, yet it amazes me that any time has passed at all.”
― Mairead Small Staid, The Traces: An Essay

tags: nostalgia, youth

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“An awareness of history—not merely the facts of it, but a sense of its continuity”
― Mairead Small Staid

tags: paris-review

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“I know there lies futility in this longing--for elsewhere, for elsewhen. I know the transformation promised by travel and nostalgia--that word rooted in homesickness...can be as superficial as that hoped for in a haircut, a new pair of shoes, the ingredients bought aspirationally, the books piled high on the nightstand, unread. Our selves are many but inescapable; we can't change our faintest, inerasable contours. And yet, the inveigling possibility, however impossible, that we might--perhaps this sense of possibility itself, rather than any of the futures it builds like cities in our minds, is the place where we are happiest.”
― Mairead Small Staid, The Traces: An Essay

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