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Crush by Richard Siken Disease of Kings by Anders Carlson-Wee Beach Head by bpNichol Madness, Rack, and Honey by Mary Ruefle The Descent of Alette by Alice Notley For Today by Carolyn Hembree White Boy Wasted by William Brian Sain Ark by Ronald Johnson This Light Will Spread by Paul Mariah Bluets by Maggie Nelson The Art of the Poetic Line by James Longenbach
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Joseph Campbell
“The psychotic drowns in the same waters in which the mystic swims with delight.”
― Joseph Campbell, Psychology of the Future: Lessons from Modern Consciousness Research
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