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Two stories unfolding over old letters and in archives and libraries is going to be a story for me. Both stories were interesting and fascinating and also gave a sense of the incredible competitiveness of academia. The only reason I'm not giving this book 5 stars is because there was just too much poetry for me. I know the main story is about two poets but I just didn't feel the need to read the full poems and was satisfied by the characters using small quotations to express how they connected w
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Jennifer Eklund
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