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people like Tranströmer and Ondaatje and Wisława Szymborska are touchstones for me. It’s a long list: George Seferis, Anne Carson, Charles Simic, Sharon Olds, Seamus Heaney: anyone who has found a way to sidestep conventional syntax.

Teju Cole • Known and Strange Things

be noticed from afar.

Julie Otsuka • The Buddha in the Attic

proselytizers

Haruki Murakami • 1Q84: Books 1 and 2

Now and Then (Canons)

Gil Scott-Heron

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This Is the Honey: An Anthology of Contemporary Black Poets

Kwame Alexander

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The Bee Sting: Shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2023

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keep a testimonial brief.

Donald Miller • Building a StoryBrand: Clarify Your Message So Customers Will Listen

This Way to the Sugar

Hieu Minh Nguyen

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Stevie Smith

Nick Cave • Faith, Hope and Carnage