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Adrienne Rich Quotes: A book of poems doesn't just come out by chance, an editor has to select it, a publisher has to distribute it or you will never see it.
         

A book of poems doesn't just come out by chance, an editor has to select it, a publisher has to distribute it or you will never see it.


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