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Check out my new book of poems here.

Claire and I wander through Calvino's Invisible Cities, and talk about the problem of language, the superstition of travel, parables, why humans love imagining their own absence, how to avoid living in an inferno, one of our favorite concluding paragraphs ever, and more.

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Check out my new book of poems here.

Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities

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